[ I want to be clear that I'm here primarily as an individual member of the GNOME Foundation. However, this particular post is primarily on behalf on Conservancy -- since Oliver called out Conservancy explicitly as a possible home for OPW. I'm the President, on the Board of Directors, and an employee of Conservancy. ]
Oliver Propst wrote at 05:58 (EDT): > I know an organization [1] that have administrative and legal > expertise, maybe they would be interested in govern the program? > > 1 https://sfconservancy.org/overview/ Conservancy would of course welcome an application by OPW to join Conservancy, and Oliver is correct that Conservancy's primary daily activities are handling the types of administrative tasks that GF has struggled to handle for OPW. OPW is somewhat different from our usual member project, which are primarily Free Software projects themselves. However, Conservancy has established in the past some projects that are primarily services to advance and/or protect the adoption of Free Software. Thus, an OPW application to Conservancy is not unprecedented. Conservancy's evaluation committee would need to consider OPW as an applicant to Conservancy and decide. (Conservancy's eval committee meets monthly.) However, one useful component of any application from a project with an existing affiliation to a Free Software 501(c)(3) non-profit is a definitive statement from the governing body of that non-profit (in this case, likely, from GF's Board) which indicates the existing org has no objection to the application. Particularly in this case, Conservancy has an excellent relationship with GF; thus, Conservancy would certainly seek a joint decision for a relocation of OPW to Conservancy. If this change is really something GF wants to pursue and Conservancy can make an impact here helping OPW flourish, I'm prepared personally to prioritize such a transition to make sure it's smooth and easy. Máirín Duffy wrote at 12:55 (EDT) on Wednesday: > > Red Hat and the Software Freedom Conservancy are funding Marina and > > Karen's time spent on administering it respectively Regardless of anything that happens about the issue raised above, Conservancy remains very supportive of OPW. Conservancy's employment policy in fact allows use of some resources to do some volunteer work for other charities. I use that to do volunteer work for the FSF myself, and Karen has done so to help OPW and GF, so I don't expect Karen will cease involvement with OPW in any event. (IIUC, Karen also volunteers further on nights/weekends for OPW and GF as well.) Finally, I personally remain very supportive of OPW. I've been urging existing Conservancy member projects for years to participate more in OPW. Sadly, I haven't been as successful as I'd like, but both Karen and I actively have been working on that since she came to work at Conservancy, and hopefully we'll see more Conservancy member projects sponsoring OPW slots in the future! -- Bradley M. Kuhn President & Distinguished Technologist of Software Freedom Conservancy _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
