Project Governance

[Seb Ruiz]

On 29/02/2008, Gregory Meyer, CPA <greg at btcincny.com> wrote:
> Where do we stand on this?

I'm wondering whether we should become an incorporated organisation -
are there any disadvantages to this?
Also, what about trademarking?

Seb

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>  On 2/27/08, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Thanks for setting this up Greg.
>  >  I am happy with it so far.
>  >
>  >
>  >  On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Gregory Meyer, CPA <greg at btcincny.com> wrote:
>  >  >  I'll give you a case in point, which I am only citing because it is
>  >  >  the most recent example and I am no way implying that anybody did
>  >  >  anything wrong, but it made me a little uncomfortable (and remember, I
>  >  >  am accountant, so it is my job to worry about this kind of stuff).
>  >  >  Anyway, Lydia asked me last week to send some money for travel
>  >  >  expenses to Harald's friend Alex who was going to join them in fosdem
>  >  >  to man the booth.  It was 200Euros iirc.  So the problem with this is
>  >  >  that I don't know Alex from Adam, and I have no idea from the
>  >  >  information I have that there is general support to spend project
>  >  >  funds on something like that.  Heck, I don't even know if the e-mail
>  >  >  was from Lydia as it it wasn't gpg-signed or anything.  It could have
>  >  >  been Alex, or anybody for that matter, pretending to be Lydia.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > This was not for FOSDEM but for Cebit next week.
>  >  I appologize for not signing it. That was not ok. You are right. I had
>  >  some problems with signing stuff in gmail some time ago so my
>  >  signatures were invalid. Let´s see if it works now.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  >  I don't know if Harald has the authority to spend that money.  He may,
>  >  >  and I think Lydia probably got it right, but I'd feel a lot better if
>  >  >  there was two people in a defined role saying that payment was OK to
>  >  >  make.  Again, I am not raising this in order to start a debate on that
>  >  >  particular expenditure.  I only am citing it as an example of the kind
>  >  >  of thing I see this group of three dealing with.
>  >  >
>  >  >  With regard to saying that any member with X years of service is
>  >  >  automatically on that board, I think we could explore that a little.
>  >  >  One of the biggest pros is that the individuals participating in the
>  >  >  project don't have to publicly support or not support someone.  A few
>  >  >  of the cons I see are, 1) does that preclude someone like Lydia
>  >  >  serving in that role because she hasn't been here a long time, even
>  >  >  though she has become a valuable member of the Amarok team, or 2) What
>  >  >  if that group has 8 people, do those people vote every time the
>  >  >  project spends money?
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > I don´t really like the idea of anyone with at least x years of
>  >  service being automatically on the board.
>  >  We have a few contributors who are long time members of the project
>  >  but have not really contributed within the last months/year but are
>  >  still around. How do we tell some-time-contributors apart from really
>  >  active people? I am open for suggestions here.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  >  Anyway, that's kind of long winded, but I hope I clarified what I see
>  >  >  as the purpose for this committee.
>  >  >  --
>  >  >  Greg
>  >
>  >
>  > Again. Thanks Greg
>  >
>  >  Cheers
>  >  Lydia
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  --
>  >  Lydia Pintscher
>  >  Amarok team        community manager
>  >  amarok.kde.org     claimid.com/nightrose
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