[Evergreen-governance-l] Last kick at the can: Software Freedom Conservancy application

[Dan Scott]

Thanks, Amy!

As an update for everyone, I've been working most of the day on the
Conservancy application and associated wiki pages at
http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=governance:software_freedom_conservancy_membership_application  - http://ur1.ca/1iqlm if you like shorter URLs - and I'm reasonably happy with the results.

I'm going to send this off tomorrow to meet the absolute deadline from
the Conservancy; please consider this a last call for any members of the
Evergreen governance committee to raise any concerns about the content
of the application or to suggest further additions (for example, in the
area of affiliations with other for-profit or non-profit groups).

Thanks,
Dan

On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 17:00 -0400, Amy Terlaga wrote:
> Okay, Dan, I added a little bit about RSCEL.  Hope it's appropriate:
> 
> #
> Existing for-profit or non-profit affiliations, funding relationships, or
> other agreements that the project or its leaders have with other
> organizations.
> 
>     *
>       (aft) Partnering with the Galecia Group (Petaluma, CA) and the King
> County Library System (Issaquah, WA) in developing resources for the
> Evergreen community. The King County Library system won a $1 million IMLS
> grant in September 2009, entitled "Powered by Open Source." King County has
> partnered with six other library systems to provide a peer-to-peer support
> model for open source libraries. The grant-funded website for their open
> source project, RSCEL (Resource & Sharing Cooperative of Evergreen
> Libraries) is at http://rscel.evergreen-ils.org.
> 
> Amy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: evergreen-governance-l-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
> [mailto:evergreen-governance-l-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf
> Of Dan Scott
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 10:11 AM
> To: evergreen-governance-l at list.georgialibraries.org
> Subject: [Evergreen-governance-l] Software Freedom Conservancy application
> 
> Hi folks:
> 
> I plan to submit the application to the Software Freedom Conservancy
> sometime this weekend. This will still be in time for their September
> deadline. 
> 
> We don't have to have the by-laws finished, as the SFC normally works
> out the finer points of governance rules with member organizations after
> they have been accepted. We're probably way ahead of most projects in
> terms of tackling some of the larger questions, so the work we've been
> doing and the discussions we've been having should only help. It would
> be good to get the proposed structure out into the open community soon.
> 
> One of the outstanding questions is whether we will donate a percentage
> of our funds to the SFC. I would like to propose a 1% donation in the
> first year, to be revisited after the first year (at the same time we
> might revisit our membership in the SFC and consider our own 501(c)(3)).
> 
> A number of people have offered to help with the open questions listed
> at
> http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=governance:software_freedom_co
> nservancy_membership_application and asked me what I want them to do. To my
> discredit, I haven't answered them, but the big questions are:
> 
>   * Have you ever had funds held by the project, or by any individual on
> behalf of the projects?  How and for what did you spend those funds?
> 
>  - I'm not sure if Evergreen under the wing of GPLS counts; I suspect
> not.
> 
>   * Brief history of the project, including past governance decisions.
> 
>  - It would be nice to have more than what's in
> http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:evergreen_faq_1 if
> anyone has the time or energy or interest in telling our story.
> 
>   * Existing for-profit or non-profit affiliations, funding
> relationships, or other agreements that the project or its leaders have
> with other organizations.
> 
>   - Do we talk about RSCEL and other such affiliations here ? How about
> the cost-sharing development agreements for things like hard due dates?
> 
> So if you're one of the people who offered to help out, the best thing
> to do would be to jump right into the wiki and start fleshing out the
> answers in the areas with which you have the most familiarity.
> 
> Dan
> 
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