Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define "Membership" within TDF?

Il 19/10/2010 17.19, Charles-H. Schulz ha scritto:

[...]

> So, if I understand you well, you do indeed raise a good question, but
> one which, to me, adds more gray zones. Let me rephrase how I
> understand your position: you are afraid that we're mixing the
> membership of the Foundation and the membership of the community, and
> that by mixing the two we would be putting the foundation itself (the
> legal object, the kernel as you called it) in jeopardy . Basically,
> every contributor could come around and harm the foundation. (Did I get
> this right?)

Yes, that's the point. :)

[...]

> This being said, I believe it's necessary to focus on the question of
> the membership, and separate it from the question of the foundation
> structure and its governance. Obviously, these questions are all
> related, but if we handle more specific ones, we'll be able to generate
> some valuable input I think.

Really, *how* can you separate the membership from the governance?

You know: one head, one vote. ;-)

There are Foundations that have different classes of members (like 
stockholders), but I see really difficult to apply such method to a free 
software organization.

In addition to this, I still feel I'm still missing something in your 
argument.

In fact, you seem considering the Foundation as a part of a larger 
egalitarian group rather than the leading association that primarily 
acts for the sake of LibreOffice.

I see: The Document Foundation (members: Charles-H. Schulz, Google, 
whoever-you-want) with its steering committee/council;

While it seem you and others see: The Document Foundation + Google + 
Whoever-you-want that collaborate with each other and have a common 
council for the most important decisions.

Frankly, if it's so, it isn't what I hoped when I heard about TDF for 
the first time. :'(
--
Gianluca Turconi

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