Hello. I'm pretty used to write "status" ("bylaws"?) for non profit organisations, but before making anything like this, shouldn't we fisrt choose the place where the Foudation will be created? I know only french laws. (by the way this mail is mostly to act as a place holder and because I dislike the empty archives :-)) Other subjects of less inbterest, are: * what name for the foundation? GreenLizard? openSUSE may be a bad choice (already owned, confusing...), * what goals? certainly support the openSUSE community including whith money, but else? sincerely jdd -- Jean-Daniel Dodin Président du CULTe www.culte.org http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412160445 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-foundation+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-foundation+help@opensuse.org
Le 17/01/2011 18:30, jdd a écrit :
Other subjects of less interest, are:
example: http://www.canonical.com/about-canonical/canonical-and-open-source 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
Hey JDD, On 17.01.2011 18:30, jdd wrote:
I'm pretty used to write "status" ("bylaws"?) for non profit organisations
I'm not meaning to stop you from discussing but we actually already are a bit further in this process and discussed a lot of things already in the public board meetings. We are currently preparing materials and a list of things we have to do so we can discuss this in a more ordered manner than just firing off emails to a list. Please bear with us just for another couple of days please :) Thanks! Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-foundation+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-foundation+help@opensuse.org
Le 17/01/2011 18:39, Henne Vogelsang a écrit :
manner than just firing off emails to a list. Please bear with us just for another couple of days please :)
no problem, don't worry :-) 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
Hey, On 17.01.2011 18:43, jdd wrote:
I don't worry! I'm excited that we already have 2 new people on board that have experience with this :) Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-foundation+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-foundation+help@opensuse.org
Le 17/01/2011 18:53, Henne Vogelsang a écrit :
I don't worry! I'm excited that we already have 2 new people on board that have experience with this :)
:-) I have a long experience of non profit organisation (as chairman or treasurer), mostly in France, but I'm also the Linux Documentation Project Coordinator (what mean little, this very old project being pretty sleepy :-) 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
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:56 PM, jdd <jdd@dodin.org> wrote:
Henne, Most of my experience is with for-profit Corps. (I've formed several.) But I've been a member of one specific non-profit for 20+ years. I joined their board 2 years ago, and became president one year ago. As part of that I've been reading their bylaws, but I did not have to write them. (Realistically lawyers have boilerplate that is provided as a start point, so few people write bylaws from scratch.) I'm curious to see what the board has come up with, but I can wait (days or weeks). Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-foundation+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-foundation+help@opensuse.org
Le 17/01/2011 19:10, Greg Freemyer a écrit :
I did, but non profit french "associations loi de 1901" may be very special if you can read french, last work I did is here: http://www.culte.org/pmwiki/?n=Officiel.StatutsRI2007
I'm curious to see what the board has come up with, but I can wait (days or weeks).
same, I'm not in need of more work :-)) 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
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