Le 24/01/2011 04:59, Alan Clark a écrit :
The purpose is from prior discussions, and up for refinement, as the Foundation portal page points out all this is Drafts and represents the current state of the discussion.
present text is: "The openSUSE Foundation assists the openSUSE community efforts to build a general purpose Linux based Operating System including Desktop, Server and Development tools. The Foundation exercises administrative responsibilities and legal controls to engender open and objective leadership, vision, commitment and solidarity, empowering people to make decisions, attracting additional companies to donate to the project, and attracting a broader range of individual contributors. " * "assists the openSUSE community efforts" seems to me too restrictive. I think the foundation should be able to assist any free software/open source project. For example it could be once necessary to salary a kde developper or a kernel specialist; "assist the free software/open source community, for example the openSUSE community". we may also have to support a hardware company (for our datacenter) or commercial one (to sell boxes)... * "to build a general purpose Linux based Operating System" too limited. In any effort to build a general purpose Linux distribution, build infrastructure for testing and sharing free software, help making free software more visible in the IT world (you see the point, I don't know english enough to be precise). * we may have to buy some proprietary licence (mp3, libcss) if ever it's mandatory to make our work legal. Working as we do now may be unpractical at any time soon. I don't know how to say, may be it's not necessary, that the foundation (hence his name) is aimed to be a relatively small group with mostly control, legal and administrative power, not programming skills or need to include all the community members. The more difficult part is to manage how to create the first control organisation of the foundation, because after that the system will be somewhat closed. May be we could add somewhere in the bylaws than the openSUSE board is empowered the role of Foudation control group, but the foundation direction board can't be elected on a loose way as is the openSUSE board :-(. May be require 2/3 years with the openSUSE community to be appointed. We may also very quickly be obliged to hire some lawyers, secretary, even some room (managing money in may be millions dollars need cautions, how do Mozilla do?) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-foundation+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-foundation+help@opensuse.org