Re: Re. The Foundation [was Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral]

2001-07-12 Thread Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Justin wrote: > > I believe that all of the members of the Foundation's current board > are well known to the FreeBSD community. All 3 being Core Alumni: Jonathan M. Bresler, John D. Polstra, Justin T. Gibbs. > Having directors from outside the FreeBSD community will > broaden the perspective

Re: The Foundation [was Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral]

2001-07-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:30 AM -0700 7/7/01, Richard Hodges wrote: >Could I just ask exactly what the FreeBSD Foundation _is_? > >I read the announcement and bylaws, and it looks like it is supposed >to be the offical organization representing FreeBSD. On the other >hand, many people have suggested that there is no

Re: Re. The Foundation [was Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral]

2001-07-10 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
The Foundation has yet to approach Wind River about the Trademark, so I cannot speculate on their disposition. >>> >>>What are your plans to change this situation? >> >>The Foundation isn't planning to do anything about the trademark or >>in regards to any of its other proposed activitie

Re: Re. The Foundation [was Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral]

2001-07-10 Thread David Greenman
>>> The Foundation has yet to approach Wind River about the Trademark, >>> so I cannot speculate on their disposition. >> >>What are your plans to change this situation? > >The Foundation isn't planning to do anything about the trademark or >in regards to any of its other proposed activities until

Re: Re. The Foundation [was Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral]

2001-07-09 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>> The Foundation has yet to approach Wind River about the Trademark, >> so I cannot speculate on their disposition. > >What are your plans to change this situation? The Foundation isn't planning to do anything about the trademark or in regards to any of its other proposed activities until suffic

Re: Re. The Foundation [was Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral]

2001-07-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 8 July 2001 at 15:47:18 -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > Julian Stacey wrote: >> The sooner BOD appoint a handfull of non-execs, some nominated by core, >> the sooner it'll be easy to encourage Wind River to donate the trademark, >> before who knows what might happen at, to, or within W

Re: Re. The Foundation [was Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral]

2001-07-08 Thread Jordan Hubbard
From: "Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re. The Foundation [was Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral] Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 15:53:40 +0200 > As I recall FreeBSD Inc (ie jkh & dg, a team of 2) once held the > trademark, then it moved to Walnut,

Re: Re. The Foundation [was Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral]

2001-07-08 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>Hackers, CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Wind River might be cautious & slow when considering donating the >FreeBSD trademark to a FreeBSD Foundation controlled by a board of >just 3 directors, that even FreeBSD people are just getting to know >of, & have yet to evaluate as `The Foundation'. I believe t

Re. The Foundation [was Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral]

2001-07-08 Thread Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hackers, CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wind River might be cautious & slow when considering donating the FreeBSD trademark to a FreeBSD Foundation controlled by a board of just 3 directors, that even FreeBSD people are just getting to know of, & have yet to evaluate as `The Foundation'. Wind River might

The Foundation [was Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral]

2001-07-07 Thread Jordan Hubbard
From: Richard Hodges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 10:30:06 -0700 (PDT) > Could I just ask exactly what the FreeBSD Foundation _is_? Well, I can't speak for it, naturally, since I'm in no way connected with it. I can say that it *appears* to