From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [195.121.247.23] (helo=psmtp09.wxs.nl) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Hy65h-0007p6-KM for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:07:21 +0200 Received: from holographicklopdoctor.lan (ip5457b30e.direct-adsl.nl [84.87.179.14]) by psmtp09.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.15 (built Nov 14 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JJI002F6XNB8R@psmtp09.wxs.nl> for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:04:23 +0200 (MEST) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:02:23 +0200 From: Gerwin van der Kruis In-reply-to: To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Message-id: <200706121502.23966.gerwin@vanderkruis.net> MIME-version: 1.0 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: Subject: Re: [RFC] Creating an OpenEmbedded founation X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:07:21 -0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline On Tuesday 12 June 2007 11:46, Stelios Koroneos wrote: > I generaly agree with the idea but having gone through similar "situations" > several times in the past i know that in order to something like that to > succed, one or two persons will have to take full repsonsibility of it, as > the legal requirments are usually a lot. > > One of the things i strongly agree with Holger is that the foundantion > should not be doing bussiness, as from experience this will create *a lot* > of problems with members in the future. > It's main job should be to promote OE (conference, shows etc) and manage > the assets donated to the OE project from 3rd parties > (money,equipment,services) > > As for the legal form, i am for a European juristiction entity (at least at > this stage). > e.V looks the best way to go IMHO, but as corerctly pointed by Holger it > involves an overhead to manage it and a lot of work to set it up. > Taking into account past experience, the yearly OEDEM meeting could be also > the date of the general assembly solving this issue. > For other issues that voting is required, electronic voting could be > accepted (this largely depends on the country the e.V is setup but there is > an EU directive to member states to "legalize" electronic voting but i am > not sure if this allready in effect in Germany) > I agree with the points made . And also the not doing business is really important I think . Is there any progress on setting a date for the meeting ? Regards, Gerwin -- The Holographic Klop Doctor - 0 - | \|\ |/ | /| _|_| Underneath the mango tree :)