[kde-usa] KDE U.S. NPO

[Jeff Mitchell]

On 5/10/2012 2:29 PM, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
> Well that and things like how long it'd take roughly for requests to
> be processed (extremely important for me personally as right now with
> Claudia we have very direct influence on this which we'd likely lose).

Experience shows that it's longer than they claim it will be. :-)

> What other benefits or drawbacks would there be?

That's a very broad question. Pertaining to what, specifically?

> What would be the
> requirements imposed on us in terms of new rules beyond the ones we
> already have to adhere to?

Those are listed in the bylaws and project pages...

> What would be the relation of this entity
> to KDE eV? I have a more or less clear idea on this for Conservancy
> through Amarok of course but that's it. The other board members don't
> have that.

Several of them *should* have it, since they were instrumental in making
the desired relationship quite clear to the SFC. Before your time, but
still...

> In terms of what I'd love to see in a proposal: All of the above
> questions answered. Ideally comparing the 2 or 3 choices we might
> have. This is quite some work but it'd make a quick decision by the
> board much more likely and easy.

I still don't quite see what the issue is here and how putting together
a comparison is really going to help. The two are more alike than
different and essentially differ only in fees imposed and level of legal
protection that they offer. This has been discussed endlessly with the
Board/Claudia/Brad/Karen for years now. Getting answers to the questions
above are nice, but in the end the same tradeoff is going to come up,
and the Board is still going to have to make a decision on the same
patent protection vs. fee debate that they've been stalled on since at
least August and really longer.

> You mean on the patent stuff? I am not sure this is the thing we
> should base this decision on tbh.

According to Brad Kuhn, it's the only real difference between them. As a
result, I don't know what else you *would* base the decision on. (He'll
probably also tell you that the SFC has an actual full-time employee
(him) to take care of things, but in practice this hasn't made them speedy.)

--Jeff

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