Yes the Tryton Software Foundation is really a good initiative. What i be expect from Tryton Software Foundation is accelerated development of modules. Facelift of the tryton as a community and member collaboration in big projects and developer repository for selling addon's on a nominal price.
I belong to a developing country, yes member ship fee is an issue. But on the other side, we pay for hosting websites on a yearly basis which cost from 70-100$, and it depends on how reasonable the hosting is, you can get a garage hosting for less than 15$ a year too but that's not practical. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Nicolas Évrard <[email protected]>wrote: > * 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. > > > -- > Nicolas Évrard > > B2CK SPRL > rue de Rotterdam, 4 > 4000 Liège > Belgium > Tel: +32 472 54 46 59 > E-mail/Jabber: [email protected] > Website: http://www.b2ck.com/ > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- Shahrukh Hussain* *Consultant * **Abydeen Business Consulting* -- [email protected] mailing list
