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

[Sharp, Chris]

Dan, 

This is excellent news!

> 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).

I have set this list so that email from bkuhn at sfconservancy.org is automatically accepted to the list.  If Bradley doesn't want to join the other lists (even temporarily for discussion purposes), I can do the same there.  

Chris Sharp
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Georgia Public Library Service
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Scott" <dan at coffeecode.net>
> To: evergreen-governance-l at list.georgialibraries.org
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:33:17 PM
> Subject: [Evergreen-governance-l] [bkuhn at sfconservancy.org: Offer of membership to Evergreen into the Software Freedom
> Conservancy, Inc.]
> 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.
> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)
> 
> [ 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
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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