Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-09-30 17:03:26 +0100 Gregory John Casamento 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> --- MJ Ray <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 2004-09-30 14:11:48 +0100 Quentin
> > > I'm all for it too. A foundation dedicated to GNUstep is probably 
> > > the best 
> > > choice from the legitimacy and visibility points of view.
> > Can you explain why?
> I can...  Because it would be managed by people who have little to do 
> with the
> actual GNUstep project.

Huh? I would expect that to make the Foundation less legitimate in 
most people's eyes.

> > still waiting for Adam Fedor to say if he's asked FSF whether we can 
> > do most
> > of the tax-break stuff through them, without the overheads of our own
> > corporation.
> [...] take
> control out of the hands of those who have the most to do with the 
> project, no
> disrespect intended to RMS or the FSF.    I'm really not sure what 
> thier
> response will be.

It need not remove control. It would surely remove some bureaucracy 
from the developers. Let's not prejudge their response if we don't 
know. I know GNOME broke away, but they are a special case in some 
ways. I will go read up on their foundation a bit. If anyone has a 
good reference, please tell me.

> > If visibility is the concern, does this need to be "GNUstep 
> > Foundation"
> > rather than "GNUstep Marketing Foundation" or "GNUstep Promotion
> > Association"?
> Similar to the GNOME Foundation and the Apache Foundation, yes it 
> does.

Why? Just to ape GNOME?

I worry that marketing is trying to lead development, instead of 
assisting it. My question about verifying the suggested problems has 
gone unanswered as yet.

> > This discussion seems to be cc'd to a gnustep-dev list: is that in 
> > the gnu.*
> > newsgroups too?
> The feeling was that not enough people were on the 
> address@hidden
> list yet.

I wanted to know whether I can read gnustep-dev as a newsgroup, not 
why this was cc'd.

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