Re: Fwd: Draft of Proposal for the GNOME Foundation.

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Please note that while we certainly will eventually want to solicit
input from the entire GNOME community, foundation-list is a list for
discussion of the proposal among the 400 or so GNOME developers and
core contributors (the majority having absolutely nothing to do with
companies.). 

We'd appreciate if you don't attempt to join if you aren't in this
group. (Certainly Havoc would, since he is the guy who needs to
process subscription requests.)

Thanks,
                                        Owen

Nat Friedman <nat@helixcode.com> writes:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> This is a message I sent to the foundation-list (a list recently
> created for discussing creating a GNOME foundation) this morning.
> There have been discussions on that list for a week or so about what a
> GNOME foundation might look like.
> 
> After reading that list for a while, I grew a little bit concerned
> that this new foundation might look a little bit too much like a
> consortium, controlled by companies, and for companies.  Not that the
> majority of the discussion was swinging that direction -- but a small
> portion of it was.
> 
> So anyways, I tried to take a lot of more open suggestions about how
> to structure GNOME and compile them into a quick-n-dirty initial
> proposal for what the foundation would look like.  I mailed it to the
> foundation list, but I think it would be nice to have more people
> contribute their thoughts, and to open upthe discussion.  So here's my
> mail.