[Evergreen-governance-l] [bkuhn at sfconservancy.org: Offer of membership to Evergreen into the Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc.]

[Dan Scott]

Following is the official offer of membership to Evergreen from the
Software Freedom Conservancy.

Chris, is it possible to whitelist email from Bradley to the various
Evergreen mailing lists? When I receive the draft agreement tomorrow, I
would like to forward it to the open-ils-general mailing list for
discussion as a parallel to our rules of governance thread, and I
suspect it will be valuable to bring Bradley directly into some of those
discussions (as he has offered to participate).

Dan

----- Forwarded message from "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn at sfconservancy.org> -----

Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:38:28 -0400
From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn at sfconservancy.org>
To: Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net>, jatzberger at esilibrary.com, gmc at esilibrary.com, erickson at esilibrary.com, jason at esilibrary.com, lebbeous at esilibrary.com, mck9 at swbell.net,
	miker at esilibrary.com, dan at coffeecode.net
Subject: Offer of membership to Evergreen into the Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc.
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[ You are receiving this email because you were listed as a contributor
  to Evergreen on Evergreen's application form to join the Software
  Freedom Conservancy, which was submitted by Dan Scott. ]

I am excited to inform you that Conservancy's Board of Directors has
approved Evergreen for membership in the Software Freedom Conservancy.

The next step is to negotiate a formal agreement between the project and
the Conservancy.  In a separate message tomorrow, I will send Dan Scott
a draft agreement.  Dan, feel free to repost that draft agreement
wherever appropriate in the Evergreen community (e.g., on the
developer's mailing list).

Generally, we leave it for the Evergreen community to decide how you'd
like to discuss the document, as signing such an agreement is a big step
for the project and you should consider the agreement in whatever forum
is most appropriate for your community.  I'm happy to answer questions
from the community as you consider the document, and you should feel
comfortable cc'ing me on any threads you think I should comment on.
(However, before doing so, please make sure I can post back to any lists
included in the Cc without being formally subscribed.)  Meanwhile, you
are also welcome to batch questions into one group as well and email
them to me directly, and just repost my responses.  Basically, whatever
works well for you works fine for me.


Meanwhile, Conservancy's Directors are concerned about the fact the only
member of your core committers who doesn't work for Equinox is Dan.  Our
goal generally is to accept projects that have a diverse developer and
contributor base.  After much discussion, we came to the conclusion that
Evergreen is filling an important need for FLOSS, and therefore we'd
like to try to help you make the Evergreen developer base more diverse,
and feel that membership in Conservancy can help this happen.  But
during our discussion of the membership agreement, we should address
these questions explicitly and make plans together how we can make the
Evergreen project more diverse in this way.  We'd also appreciate
setting up a parallel conversation directly with Equinox's management
about this question as well while we discuss the membership agreement.
-- 
Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy

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