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 >
