Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 30 sept. 04, à 04:53, Gregory John Casamento a écrit :

> I have been thinking quite seriously about starting a GNUstep 
> Foundation, but
> have hesitated since I didn't know how the community would feel about 
> such a
> move.
>
> Any GNUstep foundation would need to be:
>
> 1) Formed by a group of the maintainers..

agree, a foundation needs legitimacy.

> 2) Have a decision making structure which makes decisions only 
> pertaining to
> the Foundation and will not attempt to interfere with the GNUstep 
> project, we
> don't want to repeat the mistakes of the GNOME Foundation and start 
> doing
> "design by committee".

agree as well. The Foundation's role should be to promote GNUstep by 
various
means, that's all.

> How would these funds be used?
>
> 1) They could be used to help promote GNUstep: posters, flyers, 
> t-shirts,
> whatever..
> 2) they could also be used to compensate GNUsteppers part-time, or
> 3) used to pay a company to contribute some code.
>
> I would like to know, at this point, what the community thinks of this.

I am all for it.
Sure, we could gather money via paypal accounts or via FSF (perhaps..) 
...
But having a Foundation is probably much better, and provides more 
visibility than
paypal account :-)
And effectively, we could imagine compensate some developers like that 
(if we got
money, which is a bit optimist perhaps at this stage :-) , organize 
bounties, etc..
The only thing of course is to have a Foundation that we (as the 
community)
can trust :-) but I think if you (for example) create it, that's 
perfect.

--
Nicolas Roard
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
 -Arthur C. Clarke