On 26/06/11 08:40 -0700, Jordi Esteve wrote: > > - Members can be people or companies. > > Well, we would like more that members (who have voice in the > foundation elections) were only people and sponsors people or > companies, like other free software foundations like in KDE. In this > way, the foundation has less dependence of the companies, but the > companies can sponsor it getting some public visibility, for example.
I don't understand the fear of companies. Even if we do like you want, we will have members pushed by companies. So I think it is better that everybody play the game openly. > > - The members should pay a annual fees to renew their membership. > > This fee is higher when the member is a company. > > We think is better that the resources are obtained from the sponsors. > The members must be elected by meritocracy (participation in the > tryton project), not if the can afford or not an annual fee. Having to pay for membership is a good way to have only involved members and also ensure the funding of the foundation. Also this eases to know when members resign. Using the meritocracy for membership is strange. As the foundation goals is to promote Tryton, so the meritocracy will be the guys who are doing the best promotion. This sounds strange. > > - Status can be change after a vote at a special majority (to be > > defined) > > I don't understand this last point. Status of what can be changed? I'm not sure that "status" is the right word in English. But this is how the foundation can modify its own rules. > The important think in the creation of the foundation is that a single > company could no block the strategic policy of Tryton in the future. Indeed, right now the project is already protected due to the variety of copyright owners. There is just some potential concern about the ownership of the trademark Tryton (even if B2CK has already defined the usage of it). But I'm not sure to understand what you mean by "strategic policy"? -- Cédric Krier B2CK SPRL Rue de Rotterdam, 4 4000 Liège Belgium Tel: +32 472 54 46 59 Email/Jabber: [email protected] Website: http://www.b2ck.com/
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