Time to create a Midgard association
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Henri Bergius
Time to create a Midgard association
Tue December 01 2009 09:20:10 UTCHi, all
In the Midgard Gathering a year ago we made initial plans to create a
foundation to manage the Midgard project. After some examinations and
time, it seems foundation is simply a too heavy model for our
purposes.
Therefore I'd like to propose a lighter model: founding an association.
The association would:
* Have membership open for all Midgard contributors
* Govern Midgard copyrights through Fiduciary Licensing Agreements
(http://www.fsfe.org/projects/ftf/fla.en.html)
* Arrange Midgard Gatherings
* Have a sponsorship model for Gatherings and other operations
* Seek to register a trademark for Midgard and the Midgard logo
* Provide the base infrastructure needed for the project (website, bug
trackers, version control etc)
* Have a yearly Midgard member meeting in a Gathering
The Midgard Project has individuals and many companies participating.
Having an association would provide us with a legal neutral ground for
cooperation that would safeguard the advancement and sustainability of
the project.
To make things move forward as quickly as possible, I'd like to invite
you all to a founding meeting of the association still this month. A
doodle is open in http://www.doodle.com/5ynrns8pwp838btr
An initial working name for the organization is "Association for free
and open web", as the association should have a higher goal to pursue
in order to keep the Midgard project on the right track. This will
also enable other projects to possibly join the organization once
things are moving. It will also help us with sponsorship
opportunities.
As things progress I'll try to get Free Software Foundation Europe,
Apache Software Foundation and COSS somehow involved in the process.
/Henri
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Re: Time to create a Midgard association
Fri December 11 2009 09:37:30 UTCHi, all
Therefore I'd like to propose a lighter model: founding an association.
The founding meeting will be held on Saturday Dec 19th in Angleterre on Fredrikinkatu 47 in Helsinki, Finland.
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=230652325434
For our international contributors we'll do our best to make the event work also on Qaiku #midgard channel.
Current idea is to have two competing proposals on the table:
- Create a Midgard association that will completely coordinate and manage the project
- Apply for Midgard to become an Apache project, but create an association for handling event sponsorships and other such matters as that wouldn't be possible through ASF
Welcome!
/Henri
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Re: [midgard-dev] Time to create a Midgard association
Mon January 11 2010 16:30:05 UTCHi,
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Henri Bergius <henri.bergius@iki.fi> wrote:
> The founding meeting will be held on Saturday Dec 19th in Angleterre on Fredrikinkatu 47
> in Helsinki, Finland.
Based on the decisions of that meeting (http://www.qaiku.com/go/5269)
we're now in the process of setting up an association to support the
project.
Quick summary:
* There will be an association called Midgard Project ry, based in
Helsinki, Finland
* Everybody who has made contributions in a previous year will be a
full member of the association for a year
* People who have made contributions in the past, but not in a
previous year will be alumni members (and can become full members by
contributing again)
* Contributions can be also other things than code, for instance
documentation, artwork, or Gathering arrangements
* Copyright assignments to the association will not be mandatory, but
the association can act as a fiduciary to those developers who want it
(see http://blogs.fsfe.org/adridg/?p=628)
* Membership is limited to individuals, but companies and other
organizations can of course sponsor us
* Membership is not limited by nationality, though the chairman and
half of the board must be Finnish residents
* A yearly meeting of association members (where board is chosen etc)
is held between January and May, to coincide with the spring Midgard
Gathering
We had a preparation session with Oskari and Lauri after Christmas,
and as result here is the current draft of the association bylaws:
in Finnish:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dhp98xhm_10d85z8bhk
in English (quick translation, not an official one):
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd4m6zsj_1gcnm8xkt
Please comment!
If everything works out OK, we'll submit the papers to the Finnish
association registry next week.
/Bergie
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Re: [midgard-dev] Time to create a Midgard association
Mon January 11 2010 16:55:06 UTCOn 11.01.2010, at 19:23, Henri Bergius wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Henri Bergius <henri.bergius@iki.fi> wrote:
>> The founding meeting will be held on Saturday Dec 19th in Angleterre on Fredrikinkatu 47
>> in Helsinki, Finland.
>
> Based on the decisions of that meeting (http://www.qaiku.com/go/5269)
> we're now in the process of setting up an association to support the
> project.
>
> Quick summary:
>
> * There will be an association called Midgard Project ry, based in
> Helsinki, Finland
> * Everybody who has made contributions in a previous year will be a
> full member of the association for a year
> * People who have made contributions in the past, but not in a
> previous year will be alumni members (and can become full members by
> contributing again)
> * Contributions can be also other things than code, for instance
> documentation, artwork, or Gathering arrangements
> * Copyright assignments to the association will not be mandatory, but
> the association can act as a fiduciary to those developers who want it
> (see http://blogs.fsfe.org/adridg/?p=628)
> * Membership is limited to individuals, but companies and other
> organizations can of course sponsor us
> * Membership is not limited by nationality, though the chairman and
> half of the board must be Finnish residents
> * A yearly meeting of association members (where board is chosen etc)
> is held between January and May, to coincide with the spring Midgard
> Gathering
>
> We had a preparation session with Oskari and Lauri after Christmas,
> and as result here is the current draft of the association bylaws:
>
> in Finnish:
> http://docs.google.com/View?id=dhp98xhm_10d85z8bhk
>
> in English (quick translation, not an official one):
> http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd4m6zsj_1gcnm8xkt
>
> Please comment!
>
> If everything works out OK, we'll submit the papers to the Finnish
> association registry next week.
After reading English translation:
1) It is not obvious how membership-fees are related to membership-rules defined in section 3
2) Would be nice to have something written about rights and responsibilities of members (all categories)
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Re: [midgard-dev] Time to create a Midgard association
Mon January 11 2010 17:00:05 UTCHi,
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Alexey Zakhlestin <indeyets@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) It is not obvious how membership-fees are related to membership-rules defined in
> section 3
The annual meeting can decide on membership fees for both ordinary and
alumni members. If we decide to have a fee and you don't pay you lose
your membership. But I think at least initially there will be no need
for having a fee. It just has to be in the bylaws to support the
situation if we decide it is necessary.
> 2) Would be nice to have something written about rights and responsibilities of members
> (all categories)
For ordinary members:
* Speak and vote in the annual meeting, apply to become a board member
* You have to have made an accepted contribution within the previous year
For alumni members:
* Speak and attend (but not vote) in the annual meeting
* You have to have been an ordinary member before (or at least have to
have been applicable for membership)
/Henri
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Re: [midgard-dev] Time to create a Midgard association
Mon January 11 2010 17:20:06 UTCHenri Bergius wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Alexey Zakhlestin <indeyets@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1) It is not obvious how membership-fees are related to membership-rules defined in
>> section 3
>
> The annual meeting can decide on membership fees for both ordinary and
> alumni members. If we decide to have a fee and you don't pay you lose
> your membership. But I think at least initially there will be no need
> for having a fee. It just has to be in the bylaws to support the
> situation if we decide it is necessary.
In section 5 it says that the fees are set separately for each member
group every year.
>
>> 2) Would be nice to have something written about rights and responsibilities of members
>> (all categories)
>
> For ordinary members:
> * Speak and vote in the annual meeting, apply to become a board member
> * You have to have made an accepted contribution within the previous year
>
> For alumni members:
> * Speak and attend (but not vote) in the annual meeting
> * You have to have been an ordinary member before (or at least have to
> have been applicable for membership)
The idea is that at some point later on we write those official
guidelines (as said in section 12) and in there these things are
clarified. The guidelines would have topics like "minimum contribution",
"how to apply to be a ordinary member", "how to suggest or apply to
board member" and so forth. Bylaws are going to be as short as they can
be, because changing those is a bit tricky (been there, done that, not
happy). Guidelines are accepted by the annual meeting and as the name
says, they are just a guidelines. I'll try to write these basic topics
before the next gathering, because that's the first place we can accept
those.
//Osku
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Re: [midgard-dev] Time to create a Midgard association
Tue January 26 2010 15:50:08 UTCHi,
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Henri Bergius <henri.bergius@iki.fi> wrote:
> * There will be an association called Midgard Project ry, based in
> Helsinki, Finland
The papers have now been submitted to the Finnish association
registry. Processing should happen within next two weeks.
http://www.qaiku.com/go/5k78
If everything goes well we will have the first association meeting in
the spring Midgard Gathering.
/Bergie
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