* Jordi Esteve [2011-06-26 17:40 +0200]:
Good initiative. We (Zikzakmedia SL) think that Tryton needs to have
his own foundation, so the project itself will not be controlled by a
single/few company or individual in the future. In fact, we and other
Spanish companies are evaluating the convenience to start working
with this nice project that Tryton is, and start developing Spanish
localization modules,
Good to ear that. We're looking forward for this time to come since
the spanish community looks like one of the most active and
technically sound community of OpenERP.
depending on the creation of this foundation. We would like to avoid
the blocking practices that other free licence ERPs have because they
don't have any foundation that controls their strategic policy.
I must say that since a large part of the copyright is held both by
Tiny SPRL, B2CK and other members of the community and change in the
license is, in my opinion, impossible. So this issue is already
solved.
But anyway, the creation of the foundation will help prove that Tryton
is really a community project rather than a one-man job with a bit of
help from everywhere.
...
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 think that it is more transparent to allow people to display their
affiliation.
An interesting question is whether we should limit the number of
member coming from one company.
- 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.
On a second though I must say that I think there is a small issue with
a paying membership : what happens for people of developing
countries ? 100 € per year is not that much for someone from Europe
but would this amount prevent people from less rich countries to join
the foundation ?
Should we have a system to reduce their fees ?
The members must be elected by meritocracy (participation in the
tryton project), not if the can afford or not an annual fee.
As Cédric said a choice on merit is hard regarding the foundation
purposes.
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