Well, here's my thoughts on an association, and what I'd fine useful. 
Maybe other people have different priorities, I dunno.

First, who is in the association?  I don't see it as an exclusive club, 
but the simple task of making a list of maintained packages compatible 
with this Not Really Named stack would be quite useful to people.  We 
could get a trove classifier, and make sure everyone registers it (you 
don't have to rerelease to change your classifiers).  Additionally we 
could maintain a wiki page with a list and a high-level classification. 
  I expect for instance that there will be several auth systems, and I 
don't think this is the place to make any clear auth decision.  We can 
just list them.  But being actively maintained and participating in this 
community *is* a prerequisite.

We should have some badge or link of some sort, and agree on a place to 
put it (generally) -- side bar, foot of the page, both, an icon in the 
top right... there's several options.  I'd be open to something more 
prominent than just a little badge.  Those stop-poverty icons in the 
corner of some pages look nice to me.  Damned if I can find one at the 
moment.

 From there we might want to consider sharing services and 
infrastructure.  Sphinx is looking nice, and if we all started using it 
for docs then we might have some opportunity to do more sophisticated 
things using it (e.g., to cross link).  Shared search could be useful. 
If we want to setup stuff like IRC logging, that can easily be managed 
once.  The wiki situation is also kind of a mess for everyone, and wiki 
content is the content most likely to be cross-library.

These steps seem realistic to me.  Right now I don't believe anyone but 
TG has much money to manage, so I don't have any need for any structure 
like that.

   Ian

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