From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58643) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIY5N-0000ih-Lv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 04:12:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIY5J-00043J-5U for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 04:12:05 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:37812) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIY5I-000439-Vr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 04:12:01 -0400 References: From: Laszlo Ersek Message-ID: <55B1F34D.1060508@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:11:57 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] The QEMU project has joined Software Freedom Conservancy List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: QEMU Developers 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). >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 F=C3=A4rber, 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > People who like press releases can find the official > one from Conservancy here: > http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/jul/23/qemu-joins/ >=20 > 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. >=20 > -- PMM >=20