Re: [Qemu-devel] The QEMU project has joined Software Freedom Conservancy

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 07/23/15 22:11, Peter Maydell wrote:
> I'm happy to be able to announce that the QEMU project
> has joined Software Freedom Conservancy. This is something
> we've been wanting to do for a while now (we've talked
> about it at several previous QEMU Summit meetings).
> 
> Software Freedom Conservancy is a non-profit public charity
> that provides financial and admin services to the various
> Free Software and Open Source projects under its umbrella.
> 
> Conservancy membership gives us a structure and access
> to various services:
>  https://sfconservancy.org/members/services/
> of which perhaps the most significant is having an
> organization that can accept donations (such as the
> payments to mentoring organizations in the Google Summer
> of Code). Conservancy will also be able to hold project
> assets like the qemu-project.org domain name for us.
> 
> As part of this, we've slightly formalized QEMU's
> leadership structure, because Conservancy need to
> know who's allowed to ask them to do something on behalf
> of the project. So we've created the QEMU Leadership
> Committee, whose initial members are Paolo Bonzini,
> Andreas Färber, Alexander Graf, Stefan Hajnoczi, Mike Roth
> and myself. Committee voting is by simple majority on all
> decisions

But but but... there's an even number of committee members. What if
there's a tie? :)

--*--

Congratulations! :)

Laszlo

 (including on who to add to or remove from the
> Committee). There can't be more than two members employed
> by the same company on the committee at once.
> 
> This doesn't mean any change in the general day-to-day
> working of the project. I don't expect that we'll need to
> take formal decisions on behalf of the project very often,
> but now we have a mechanism for it.
> 
> People who like press releases can find the official
> one from Conservancy here:
>  http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/jul/23/qemu-joins/
> 
> I'd like to thank Stefan Hajnoczi in particular for doing
> most of the legwork in getting this set up, and also
> the folks at Conservancy.
> 
> -- PMM
>