On Thursday 20 January 2011 16:18:57 jdd wrote:
Le 18/01/2011 23:38, Jos Poortvliet a écrit :
Why a separate organization? Shouldn't the foundation be able to take care of conflicts?
thats not the problem I have in mind.
To catch people and money, it's often best to be local. French people may not subscribe to an Ile of Man corporation, but do to the french-openSUSE chapter (for example).
local organisation can be light, or even federal (like in sports)
Ha, that is a different but very valid point. Once we have a central Foundation, there might be good reasons to set up local chapters with a legal base & money handling capacity at some point. I would however wait with that - GNOME & KDE have each 1 or 2 of those local organisations. There are, after all, costs and work involved with that. Doing that right now is probably a bit too soon and taking on to much at once.
jdd