[Evergreen-governance-l] Notice of Evergreen Foundation Committee Meeting; April 30, 2011 (Proposed Message to Evergreen Community)

[Amy Terlaga]

Yes, excellent.  You've summarized it well, Elizabeth.

 

On this:

II.     Board Reports; Update on the past year
       -Communications Committee
       -Conference Committee
       -Other Committees or Community entities?

 

I supposed the web team work can be reported under the Communications
Committee.  

For the conference committee, would that be a report on how well the
conference has gone and an introduction of the new conference (2012)
masters?

How about DIG - should we see if Karen Collier wants to give a summary
report of their work?

 

Amy

 

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Of Lori Bowen Ayre
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:53 AM
To: McKinney, Elizabeth
Cc: Evergreen Governance
Subject: Re: [Evergreen-governance-l] Notice of Evergreen Foundation
Committee Meeting; April 30, 2011 (Proposed Message to Evergreen Community)

 

Elizabeth,

 

Excellent.  One thing I'd like to see added is a sentence about the
protection of Evergreen assets provided by our membership with SFC.  I think
that's an important thing for people to understand right away (to reduce the
'why SFC and not a foundation' bubbles from popping up above everyone's
heads.)

 

And yes, I think we should stop using "foundation."  I guess we all need to
practice referring to our membership instead of our foundation....

 

Lori

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:05 PM, McKinney, Elizabeth
<emckinney at georgialibraries.org> wrote:


Below is a proposed email to the community regarding the upcoming evergreen
Foundation Committee Meeting.  (That name was listed on the agenda. Do we
want to change it?)




Dear Evergreen Community Members,

At the 2010 Evergreen Conference in Grand Rapids several of us were charged
with moving forward with the idea of an Evergreen Foundation.  We formed the
interim Governance Committee and proceeded with finding a way to form a
non-profit entity that would allow for community growth and cooperative
efforts.

The Committee will host an open meeting at the upcoming Evergreen Conference
in Decatur, GA on Saturday, April 30, 2011 to give an account of our work
during the past year. See agenda below. We are submitting documents for your
review prior to this meeting.

The Committee is set to sign an agreement with the Software Freedom
Conservancy.  The conservancy provides a non-profit home and infrastructure
for open-source projects. Details of this agreement can be found at <link to
SFC documents>

The Committee has developed a Rules of Governance document.  These skeletal
rules will help us to move forward in a structured way and can be fleshed
out as we move forward with a permanent structure.  We are required to have
a minimal set of rules for governance in order to take advantage of the
services of the Software Freedom Conservancy.  You can review the most
recent version of the Evergreen Oversight Board Rules of Governance at <link
to Governance documents>


Evergreen Foundation Committee Meeting
Agenda
April 30, 2011; 11:45-12:30


I.      Welcome and Introduction of Board Members
II.     Board Reports; Update on the past year
       -Communications Committee
       -Conference Committee
       -Other Committees or Community entities?
       -Account of Work Completed
         Software Freedom Conservancy
         Rules of Governance

III.    Open Discussion/Questions

IV.     Adjournment



We look forward to hosting our first committee meeting and hope that you can
join us in Decatur.


The Interim Evergreen Governance Committee












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