William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: [Fri Jan 18 2008, 04:25:54PM CST]
> Does the SFC have adequate funding? Seemed like they were very tight on
> funds, and even if we had a our ducks in a row. All things per their
> list and likings. They have no $ for us.
I'll leave that up to the SFC to decide. Some time ago the SFC issued
us an invitation to join them, and explained what doing so would mean
(see http://www.grantgoodyear.org/g2blog/gentoo/20070717-sflc.html
for details). Neither they nor us are committed to anything right now,
but sending them the information they requested would allow them to make
a decision. We could then decide to go with them, somebody else, or
keep things going ourselves.
> Much less if they have never managed an entity like that. Why are you so
> confident they can handle us and our problems? Not meant to be
> confrontational, just curious your thoughts there.
Mostly because they problems we face are similar to the problems their
other projects face--preserving and protecting trademarks and
copyrights, handling finances, etcetera.
> Seems like them being new, lack of adequate funding, and lack of
> experience managing an entity like ours, much less our size. Seems like
> a very risky proposition.
Not really, as far as I can tell. They're likely to do a better job
than we've been doing, since I think we could trust them to file the
appropriate paperwork, at least. That said, their contract with us
would have an "escape clause". At any time we could take our assets and
set up a new Foundation, and they'll help us do it.
> IMHO the SPI is WAY better. More established, been around longer.
> Manages Debian, used to do Gnome, etc. Likely has enough funding, surely
> enough experience, etc.
That may be true, and if somebody wants to contact the folks at SPI,
please feel free. It's not like we'd be joining the SFC tomorrow, no
matter what happens.
I hope that helps,
g2boojum
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