I apologise for the FW, I messed up with HTML denial.
On 27 September 2010 18:45, Kostas Boukouvalas <boukouvalas(a)linux.com> wrote:
> On 27 September 2010 13:09, Henne Vogelsang <hvogel(a)opensuse.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> openSUSE is no official organization. It's an open source project. The board is working on making an official "foundation" that represents the project but this is not done yet.
>
> This is encouraging.
>
>> Can you tell us in which situation you would need a signature for what? This is the first time we hear about something like that. Please elaborate.
>
> The relationship between distribution teams and local, national or
> international associations are not always so harmonic. Therefore lets
> take an example.
>
> A recognized by law Linux User Group organizes presentation to a
> School. The L.U.G. makes a call for presence to as much distribution
> communities as it gets. In one of this communities there are also
> minors enthusiasts. One of them seduces a girl that day but something
> goes wrong between them.
>
> Who is the school and the parent to blame? The L.U.G.? The minor? The
> parent of the minor? The open source project that is behind the
> distribution community? By law the L.U.G. has the responsibility. But
> the problem was created by one distribution community member. So the
> aftermath is that the L.U.G. does not want any type of relation with
> distribution communities any more and this is bad for the entire floss
> community in this country / city / region.
>
> So, either the L.U.G. will have a Big Brother suspicious mind and will
> scan everybody from the distribution community - and this is bad also,
> or everyone will take the responsibility that she has to take.
>
> This is one example - fortunately this has not happened - but there
> are many more.
>
>>
>> We have a status like that: Membership. What do you think needs to be improved to make this more recognizable for the outside world?
>
> Membership is ok, but I think its not enough. I would prefer to wait
> for the foundation to be created. I think also that the foundation
> should have a great "law team" in order the individual members to be
> fully personally responsible for their actions. Until then, of course
> almost nothing can stop us working the way we do today.
>
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