[Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/website: add page for the Buildroot Association

[Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/website: add page for the Buildroot Association

[Thomas Petazzoni]

For about two years, a legal entity called "Buildroot Association" was
created in France to support the Buildroot project. Until fall 2018,
this legal entity has not been used. In fall 2018, we started using it
in order to receive donations from companies in order to organize the
Buildroot Developers Meeting that took place before the Embedded Linux
Conference Europe 2018 in Edinburgh.

This commit creates a new page on our web site that documents the
existence of this Buildroot Association, and details how to become a
member. Both individuals and companies can become members.

It is worth stating that the Buildroot Association does not control
the Buildroot project: it remains a fully open-source and
community-driven project. The Buildroot Association only serves as a
legal entity to handle donations and money needed to organize the
Buildroot Developers Meeting, and pay for a few expenses related to
the project (such as domain names).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
---
 docs/website/foundation.html | 122 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/website/header.html     |   2 +
 2 files changed, 124 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 docs/website/foundation.html

diff --git a/docs/website/foundation.html b/docs/website/foundation.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c25eb42f96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/website/foundation.html
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+<!--#include file="header.html" -->
+
+<div class="container">
+  <div class="row nh"><!-- current sponsor row -->
+    <div class="col-lg-10 col-lg-offset-1 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12">
+      <div class="panel panel-primary">
+	<div class="panel-heading">Foundation</div>
+	<div class="panel-body">
+
+	  <p>The Buildroot open-source project is supported by a
+	  non-profit organization called the <strong>Buildroot
+	  Association</strong>. The goal of this non-profit
+	  organization is <strong>to engage actions to promote, help
+	  develop and democratise the Buildroot project</strong>.</p>
+
+	  <p>This non-profit organization is registered as a legal
+	  entity in France, more precisely as an <em>association loi
+	  1901</em>.</p>
+
+	  <p>This organization can receive funding from members,
+	  donators and sponsors. This funding is then used to:</p>
+
+	  <ul>
+	    <li>Pay for the meeting rooms used during the
+	      bi-yearly Buildroot Developers Meeting;</li>
+	    <li>Pay for travel expenses for contributors
+	      willing to attend the Buildroot Developers
+	      Meeting, and not covered by their employer to do
+	      so;</li>
+	    <li>Pay for renting servers used to host the
+	      Buildroot infrastructure.</li>
+	  </ul>
+
+	  <p>The statutes of the association are available
+	  in <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/master/statuts_fr.txt">French</a>
+	  (official) and
+	  in <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/blob/master/statutes_en.txt">English</a>
+	  (unofficial translation). The association was declared on
+	  March 14, 2016 to the <em>Pr?fecture de Haute-Garonne</em>
+	  (France) and is registered under the n?W313024278. See this
+	  official <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/blob/master/pdf/Recepisse_CR.pdf">receipt</a>
+	  from the french authorities.</p>
+
+	  <p>Our accounting is fully public, including the bank
+	  account summaries,
+	  see <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/tree/master/accounting">accounting</a>. Numerous
+	  other administrative documents related to the association
+	  are available on
+	  its <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/">Github
+	  repository</a></p>
+	</div>
+      </div>
+
+      <div class="panel panel-primary">
+	<div class="panel-heading">Becoming a member</div>
+	<div class="panel-body">
+
+	  <p>To become a member, an individual or a company simply has
+	  to pay its yearly membership. For an individual, the minimum
+	  membership fee per year is 10 EUR. For a company, the
+	  minimum membership fee per year is 150 EUR. Individuals and
+	  companies are free to give more than the minimum
+	  required.</p>
+
+	  <p>The membership is valid for the current civil year, i.e
+	  any membership fee paid in 2019 is valid in December 31,
+	  2019.</p>
+
+	  <p>Once the membership fee is received, it will be list in
+	  the
+	  association <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/tree/master/accounting">accounting</a>
+	  files, which serve as the official list of
+	  members. Therefore, members accept that their name and the
+	  amount of their membership fee is made public.</p>
+
+	  <p>There are two possibilities to pay the membership
+	  fee:</p>
+
+	  <ul>
+
+	    <li>A direct wire-transfer to the association bank
+	    account. Since the bank account is located in France, this
+	    is completely free of charge for any person or company
+	    located in the European Union. The IBAN number of the
+	    association bank account is <code>FR53 2004 1010 1615 0958
+	    0P03 772</code></li>
+
+	    <li>A Paypal payment to the association Paypal account,
+	    whose address
+	    is <code>buildroot-association at lists.buildroot.org</code>.</li>
+
+	  </ul>
+
+	</div>
+      </div>
+
+      <div class="panel panel-primary">
+	<div class="panel-heading">Sponsoring the project</div>
+	<div class="panel-body">
+
+	  <p>Companies willing to help the Buildroot project can do so
+	  by making a donation to the <em>Buildroot
+	  Association</em>. In exchange for these donations, companies
+	  will be listed on our <a href="/sponsors.html">Sponsors</a>
+	  page and will be thanked in our release announcements.</p>
+
+	  <p>As the <em>Buildroot Association</em> is a legal entity
+	  registered in France, it is able to deliver a bill and/or
+	  receipt.</p>
+
+	  <p>Please
+	  contact <a href="mailto:buildroot-association@lists.buildroot.org">buildroot-association at lists.buildroot.org</a>
+	  if you are a company interested in making a donation.</p>
+
+	</div>
+      </div>
+
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<!--#include file="footer.html" -->
diff --git a/docs/website/header.html b/docs/website/header.html
index a6f16e680b..ed4b62a1e5 100644
--- a/docs/website/header.html
+++ b/docs/website/header.html
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
 					<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-share"></span> Contribute</a></li>
 				<li><a href="/sponsors.html">
 					<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-usd"></span> Sponsors</a></li>
+				<li><a href="/foundation.html">
+					<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-resize-small"></span> Foundation</a></li>
 				<li><a id="menubutton" class="btn btn-success btn-shrink" href="/download.html">
 					<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-cloud-download"></span>
 					<span class="text-shrink" >Download</span></a></li>
-- 
2.20.1

[Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/website: add page for the Buildroot Association

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 07/02/2019 23:09, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> For about two years, a legal entity called "Buildroot Association" was
> created in France to support the Buildroot project. Until fall 2018,
> this legal entity has not been used. In fall 2018, we started using it
> in order to receive donations from companies in order to organize the
> Buildroot Developers Meeting that took place before the Embedded Linux
> Conference Europe 2018 in Edinburgh.
> 
> This commit creates a new page on our web site that documents the
> existence of this Buildroot Association, and details how to become a
> member. Both individuals and companies can become members.
> 
> It is worth stating that the Buildroot Association does not control
> the Buildroot project: it remains a fully open-source and
> community-driven project. The Buildroot Association only serves as a
> legal entity to handle donations and money needed to organize the
> Buildroot Developers Meeting, and pay for a few expenses related to
> the project (such as domain names).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
> ---
>  docs/website/foundation.html | 122 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  docs/website/header.html     |   2 +
>  2 files changed, 124 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 docs/website/foundation.html
> 
> diff --git a/docs/website/foundation.html b/docs/website/foundation.html
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..c25eb42f96
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/docs/website/foundation.html
                     ^^^^^^^^^^association + in other places

> @@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
> +<!--#include file="header.html" -->
> +
> +<div class="container">
> +  <div class="row nh"><!-- current sponsor row -->
> +    <div class="col-lg-10 col-lg-offset-1 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12">
> +      <div class="panel panel-primary">
> +	<div class="panel-heading">Foundation</div>
> +	<div class="panel-body">
> +
> +	  <p>The Buildroot open-source project is supported by a
> +	  non-profit organization called the <strong>Buildroot
> +	  Association</strong>. The goal of this non-profit
> +	  organization is <strong>to engage actions to promote, help
> +	  develop and democratise the Buildroot project</strong>.</p>
> +
> +	  <p>This non-profit organization is registered as a legal
> +	  entity in France, more precisely as an <em>association loi
> +	  1901</em>.</p>
> +
> +	  <p>This organization can receive funding from members,
> +	  donators and sponsors. This funding is then used to:</p>
          ^^^^^^^^donors

> +
> +	  <ul>
> +	    <li>Pay for the meeting rooms used during the
> +	      bi-yearly Buildroot Developers Meeting;</li>

 Don't you just love English... bi-yearly can mean "twice per year" or "every
two years"... To avoid confusion, I'd use "twice per year".

> +	    <li>Pay for travel expenses for contributors
> +	      willing to attend the Buildroot Developers
> +	      Meeting, and not covered by their employer to do
> +	      so;</li>
> +	    <li>Pay for renting servers used to host the
                                       ^ and services
because it is actually used mainly for the domain name now I think.

> +	      Buildroot infrastructure.</li>
> +	  </ul>
> +
> +	  <p>The statutes of the association are available
                 ^^^^^^^^bylaws?

> +	  in <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/master/statuts_fr.txt">French</a>
> +	  (official) and
> +	  in <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/blob/master/statutes_en.txt">English</a>
> +	  (unofficial translation). The association was declared on
> +	  March 14, 2016 to the <em>Pr?fecture de Haute-Garonne</em>
> +	  (France) and is registered under the n?W313024278. See this
> +	  official <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/blob/master/pdf/Recepisse_CR.pdf">receipt</a>
> +	  from the french authorities.</p>
                   ^F
> +
> +	  <p>Our accounting is fully public, including the bank
> +	  account summaries,
> +	  see <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/tree/master/accounting">accounting</a>. Numerous
> +	  other administrative documents related to the association
> +	  are available on
> +	  its <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/">Github
> +	  repository</a></p>
> +	</div>
> +      </div>
> +
> +      <div class="panel panel-primary">
> +	<div class="panel-heading">Becoming a member</div>
> +	<div class="panel-body">
> +
> +	  <p>To become a member, an individual or a company simply has
> +	  to pay its yearly membership. For an individual, the minimum

 Should we mention somewhere that the board can veto that?

> +	  membership fee per year is 10 EUR. For a company, the
> +	  minimum membership fee per year is 150 EUR. Individuals and
> +	  companies are free to give more than the minimum
> +	  required.</p>
> +
> +	  <p>The membership is valid for the current civil year, i.e
> +	  any membership fee paid in 2019 is valid in December 31,
                                                   ^through

> +	  2019.</p>
> +
> +	  <p>Once the membership fee is received, it will be list in
                                                                 ed
> +	  the
> +	  association <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/tree/master/accounting">accounting</a>
> +	  files, which serve as the official list of
> +	  members. Therefore, members accept that their name and the
> +	  amount of their membership fee is made public.</p>
> +
> +	  <p>There are two possibilities to pay the membership
> +	  fee:</p>
> +
> +	  <ul>
> +
> +	    <li>A direct wire-transfer to the association bank
> +	    account. Since the bank account is located in France, this
> +	    is completely free of charge for any person or company
> +	    located in the European Union. The IBAN number of the
> +	    association bank account is <code>FR53 2004 1010 1615 0958
> +	    0P03 772</code></li>
                           ^.

 I've applied to master with all these changes (except the veto thing). Can
still be corrected later.

 Regards,
 Arnout

> +
> +	    <li>A Paypal payment to the association Paypal account,
> +	    whose address
> +	    is <code>buildroot-association at lists.buildroot.org</code>.</li>
> +
> +	  </ul>
> +
> +	</div>
> +      </div>
> +
> +      <div class="panel panel-primary">
> +	<div class="panel-heading">Sponsoring the project</div>
> +	<div class="panel-body">
> +
> +	  <p>Companies willing to help the Buildroot project can do so
> +	  by making a donation to the <em>Buildroot
> +	  Association</em>. In exchange for these donations, companies
> +	  will be listed on our <a href="/sponsors.html">Sponsors</a>
> +	  page and will be thanked in our release announcements.</p>
> +
> +	  <p>As the <em>Buildroot Association</em> is a legal entity
> +	  registered in France, it is able to deliver a bill and/or
> +	  receipt.</p>
> +
> +	  <p>Please
> +	  contact <a href="mailto:buildroot-association@lists.buildroot.org">buildroot-association at lists.buildroot.org</a>
> +	  if you are a company interested in making a donation.</p>
> +
> +	</div>
> +      </div>
> +
> +    </div>
> +  </div>
> +</div>
> +
> +<!--#include file="footer.html" -->
> diff --git a/docs/website/header.html b/docs/website/header.html
> index a6f16e680b..ed4b62a1e5 100644
> --- a/docs/website/header.html
> +++ b/docs/website/header.html
> @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
>  					<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-share"></span> Contribute</a></li>
>  				<li><a href="/sponsors.html">
>  					<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-usd"></span> Sponsors</a></li>
> +				<li><a href="/foundation.html">
> +					<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-resize-small"></span> Foundation</a></li>
>  				<li><a id="menubutton" class="btn btn-success btn-shrink" href="/download.html">
>  					<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-cloud-download"></span>
>  					<span class="text-shrink" >Download</span></a></li>
> 

[Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/website: add page for the Buildroot Association

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

Thanks for the review. I obviously agree on all points, except one
where I have a comment (not really a full disagreement).

On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 00:19:08 +0100
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> wrote:

> > diff --git a/docs/website/foundation.html b/docs/website/foundation.html
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000..c25eb42f96
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/docs/website/foundation.html  
>                      ^^^^^^^^^^association + in other places

Actually, it was intentional to use the term "foundation" in as many
places as possible. Even if the french authorities rejected the legal
name "Buildroot Foundation", because "foundation" has a very specific
meaning in terms of legal entity in France, I thought "foundation" was
the english word that carried best what this organization was. Is
"association" really the proper word in english to describe a
not-for-profit legal entity ?

> > +	  <p>To become a member, an individual or a company simply has
> > +	  to pay its yearly membership. For an individual, the minimum  
> 
>  Should we mention somewhere that the board can veto that?

I don't think it's really needed. It's pretty common for
associations/foundations to have the possibility of vetoing
memberships, and it's a sufficiently rare event that it's probably not
worth mentioning on this page.

Thanks,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

[Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/website: add page for the Buildroot Association

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 08/02/2019 08:53, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for the review. I obviously agree on all points, except one
> where I have a comment (not really a full disagreement).
> 
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 00:19:08 +0100
> Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> wrote:
> 
>>> diff --git a/docs/website/foundation.html b/docs/website/foundation.html
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000000..c25eb42f96
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/docs/website/foundation.html  
>>                      ^^^^^^^^^^association + in other places
> 
> Actually, it was intentional to use the term "foundation" in as many
> places as possible. Even if the french authorities rejected the legal
> name "Buildroot Foundation", because "foundation" has a very specific
> meaning in terms of legal entity in France, I thought "foundation" was
> the english word that carried best what this organization was. Is
> "association" really the proper word in english to describe a
> not-for-profit legal entity ?

 For me it's just a matter of avoiding confusion. Don't call it foundation if it
is actually called Buildroot Association.


>>> +	  <p>To become a member, an individual or a company simply has
>>> +	  to pay its yearly membership. For an individual, the minimum  
>>
>>  Should we mention somewhere that the board can veto that?
> 
> I don't think it's really needed. It's pretty common for
> associations/foundations to have the possibility of vetoing
> memberships, and it's a sufficiently rare event that it's probably not
> worth mentioning on this page.

 Yeah and it would probably sound a little, er, non-inviting :-)

 Regards,
 Arnout