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

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

[Peter Maydell]

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 (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

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

[Laszlo Ersek]

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
> 

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

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> I'm happy to be able to announce that the QEMU project
> has joined Software Freedom Conservancy.

I added a wiki page listing the Leadership Committee members and
explaining the relationship with Software Freedom Conservancy:
http://qemu-project.org/Conservancy

The wiki front page now says "QEMU is a member of Software Freedom
Conservancy" and links to the new page.

Stefan

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

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>> I'm happy to be able to announce that the QEMU project
>> has joined Software Freedom Conservancy.

Stefan Hajnoczi wrote on Friday, 24 July:
> I added a wiki page listing the Leadership Committee members and
> explaining the relationship with Software Freedom Conservancy:
> http://qemu-project.org/Conservancy
>
> The wiki front page now says "QEMU is a member of Software Freedom
> Conservancy" and links to the new page.

That's great, thank you!

We're all really excited to have QEMU as a member project!

-- 
Bradley M. Kuhn
President & Distinguished Technologist of Software Freedom Conservancy