On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:04:37 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote: >Bastien Nocera wrote: >> On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 16:21 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote: >>> Paul Cooper wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> * Thomas: Investigate setting up Gnome-UK as a club / registered charity / NFP so we can get a bank account and other infrastructure ready. >>>> >>> I'd be particularly interested if anyone can shed some light on how >>> debian-uk set up their account, and how they operate in this regard. >>> >>> From what I have gathered so far, we need either a document outlining >>> our "Rules and Constitution" or instead, a "Memorandum and Articles of >>> Association". At the very least we need a letter to confirm the >>> organisation's aims and objectives, and to confirm that we are a >>> non-profit making organisation. We will also have to have an appointed >>> treasurer who will be able to deal with all the accounts. Appointing a >>> treasurer obviously means we will have to have some sort of process, and >>> inevitably some sort of eligibility to contribute to the process. >> >> My contribution to this is not going to be that great, as I have no idea >> about setting up an association. >> >> For the eligibility, it should be easy: piggy-back on the GNOME >> Foundation membership (hoping that everyone that needs to be in the >> GNOME-UK association is in the GNOME Foundation, otherwise it'll get >> messy). >> > >Somehow I doubt that everyone who wants to be involved in GNOME-UK is a >foundation member. I want this to be an inclusive group of GNOME users, >not just the people who have made significant contributions to GNOME. I >suspect the people with the most interest to get involved are those >that haven't had a chance to contribute to GNOME or other Free Software >projects before. > >We currently have 77 subscribers to this list (much more than I had >previously thought!). I want to encourage *everyone* to comment on what >you expect from GNOME-UK, so that we can form some consensus on what >our aims and objectives should be. [de-lurking...] Looking only to include major contributors might suggest that GNOME is an elitist organisation and that you have to either give up your day job or be lucky enough to work for a company that pays you to develop on GNOME. Besides "beginners" I suspect it would also lock out translators and artists. I'm not saying there shouldn't be criteria for entering, just that they shouldn't require radical changes to my life. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus therning org Jabber: magnus therning gmail com http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling--the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration. -- Niklaus Wirth
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