En/na Nicolas Évrard ha escrit:
* Jordi Esteve [2011-06-26 17:40 +0200]:
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.
Your are talking only about code, but there are other important things
that must be protected: Tryton trademark/brand, logo, domains,
documentation, ...
...
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.
Of course, as I said before: In the ERP world, most people comes from
companies, so they must public show from which company they come.
An interesting question is whether we should limit the number of
member coming from one company.
Yes, this is a must, because a single company should no block the
foundation decisions.
- 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 ?
Yes, this is another problem when you mix the decisions with money. As I
said, it should be avoid that members who pay, or who pay more than
others, have more power in their decisions/votes.
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.
Yes, you are right, meritocracy is not the right word in this context. I
meant "participation" or "implication" in the tryton project to choose
the members of Tryton foundation. I know this is not easy to measure.
Jordi
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