Summary of KDE 4.2 Release Party in Zurich

[Jeff Mitchell]

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Leo Franchi wrote:
>> At this event I had the pleasure to meet Shane Coughlan from the FSFE
>> (official title "Freedom Task Force Coordinator" [1]). Shane is
>> involved in the Software Conservancy and expressed his great interest
>> in helping us with getting things done with the organization. Shane
>> was extremely friendly and appeared to really want to help us in any
>> possible ways to "get things going". In particular he explained that
>> there are ways to solve the issues with getting financial advances for
>> planned travels that had been a concern for us.
>>
>> Shane offered solutions to get around this and other problems. He
>> explained that he is "very well connected" with lawyers around the
>> world, which could be an important asset to us. As I am not an expert
>> in financial and business matters, I did invite him to subscribe to
>> this mailing list and participate directly in the discussions around
>> the Conservancy. I hope this is in your interest too.
> 
> I would ask that once the board is created, Shane get in touch directly
> with them. It would be great to get a dialogue going with Shane from the
> FSFE and the SFC lawyers as well. A pro-active approach i think will
> work quite well :)

Just to provide an update, I've had several emails back and forth with
the SFC.  We should be able to get fast tracked in, but they're having
some issues that we're working on sorting out...mostly due to needing to
understand the exact nature of the relationship between KDE and Amarok,
which is complicated for them because of a (stalled) official KDE
application that was started a last year.

I'll report back with any relevant news or updates...right now it's
mainly me trying to convince them that despite what they think, we're
not actually a part of KDE, we're an entirely separate project that
happens to get some services donated to it from KDE out of goodwill.  I
made some analogies to SourceForge, we'll see if that helps.  :-)

- --Jeff
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