RE: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-20 Thread Beatty, Daniel D CIV NAVAIR, 474300D
on incorporating the WOCommunity Association May be this is a two step process. Operationally, Pascal needs a non-profit right now for WOWODC 2012, etc. and having a non-profit without a bigger licensing issues to deal with would be good. Once the organization is up, then it can work to move

Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-20 Thread Pascal Robert
Le 2011-09-20 à 10:16, Paul Yu a écrit : > May be this is a two step process. > > Operationally, Pascal needs a non-profit right now for WOWODC 2012, etc. and > having a non-profit without a bigger licensing issues to deal with would be > good. If we really want to move Wonder to Apache (and

Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-20 Thread Paul Yu
May be this is a two step process. Operationally, Pascal needs a non-profit right now for WOWODC 2012, etc. and having a non-profit without a bigger licensing issues to deal with would be good. Once the organization is up, then it can work to move the code to apache... Paul On Sep 20, 2011, a

Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-20 Thread John Huss
+1 for Apache. On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote: > I was trying to find a statement on the association objectives. > > Here is a crazy idea - maybe instead of starting a new non-profit, the > community should consider taking the open source parts of the WO code and > join th

Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-20 Thread Lachlan Deck
That's the best suggestion bar-none... makes much more sense than to me than starting up some obscure non-profit in Canada :) It also provides longevity to the project(s), should various current contributors retire at some point. cheers Lachlan Deck lachlan.d...@gmail.com On 19/09/2011, at 11:

Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-19 Thread Tim Worman
+1 And, it would certainly give devs more cred when we have to stand before someone about our technology choices. Tim Worman UCLA GSE&IS On Sep 19, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote: > +1 > > On Sep 19, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: > >> That is an interesting idea. I can see th

Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-19 Thread Kieran Kelleher
+1 On Sep 19, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: > That is an interesting idea. I can see that it would make Wonder/WO seem much > more credible. > > > On 2011-09-19, at 6:24 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote: > >> I was trying to find a statement on the association objectives. >> >> Here is a cra

Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-19 Thread Chuck Hill
That is an interesting idea. I can see that it would make Wonder/WO seem much more credible. On 2011-09-19, at 6:24 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote: > I was trying to find a statement on the association objectives. > > Here is a crazy idea - maybe instead of starting a new non-profit, the > commun

Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-19 Thread Andrus Adamchik
Project Wonder is BSD-licensed, WOLips was Apache licensed the last time I checked... Both licenses are ASF-friendly (obviously) and that by itself gets us pretty far. The practical requirement to start releasing all this code as "Apache WOSomething" is to track down all contributors and ask t

Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Yu
Once the organization is formed, then we can have someone else do the accounting. Paul On Sep 19, 2011, at 9:46 AM, Pascal Robert wrote: > > Le 2011-09-19 à 09:31, George Domurot a écrit : > >> You can still set your FY as 1/1 to 12/31. > > But this is also my own fiscal year, so I have to f

Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-19 Thread Pascal Robert
This is a great idea. But before, I think we need to figure out who "owns" Wonder and WOLips... > I was trying to find a statement on the association objectives. > > Here is a crazy idea - maybe instead of starting a new non-profit, the > community should consider taking the open source parts

Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-19 Thread George Domurot
Gotcha. Totally makes sense. -G On Sep 19, 2011, at 6:46 AM, Pascal Robert wrote: > > Le 2011-09-19 à 09:31, George Domurot a écrit : > >> You can still set your FY as 1/1 to 12/31. > > But this is also my own fiscal year, so I have to finish accounting for both > myself and the communit

Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-19 Thread Pascal Robert
Le 2011-09-19 à 09:31, George Domurot a écrit : > You can still set your FY as 1/1 to 12/31. But this is also my own fiscal year, so I have to finish accounting for both myself and the community at the same time. Already, just accounting for the community is taking me 2 days of work per year,

Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-19 Thread George Domurot
You can still set your FY as 1/1 to 12/31. -G On Sep 19, 2011, at 6:14 AM, Pascal Robert wrote: > > Le 2011-09-19 à 09:12, David LeBer a écrit : > >> On 2011-09-19, at 9:04 AM, Lachlan Deck wrote: >> >>> Strange: "The fiscal year of the board shall be November 1 to October 31." >>> Is that

Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-19 Thread Andrus Adamchik
I was trying to find a statement on the association objectives. Here is a crazy idea - maybe instead of starting a new non-profit, the community should consider taking the open source parts of the WO code and join the Apache Software Foundation. The benefits are the following: * WOCommunity wi

Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-19 Thread Pascal Robert
Le 2011-09-19 à 09:12, David LeBer a écrit : > On 2011-09-19, at 9:04 AM, Lachlan Deck wrote: > >> Strange: "The fiscal year of the board shall be November 1 to October 31." >> Is that the Canadian fiscal year? > > The start of the fiscal year of a Canadian corporation is not locked to the > s

Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-19 Thread David LeBer
On 2011-09-19, at 9:04 AM, Lachlan Deck wrote: > Strange: "The fiscal year of the board shall be November 1 to October 31." > Is that the Canadian fiscal year? The start of the fiscal year of a Canadian corporation is not locked to the start of the calendar year. I'm assuming that Pascal hopes t

Re: Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-19 Thread Lachlan Deck
Strange: "The fiscal year of the board shall be November 1 to October 31." Is that the Canadian fiscal year? On 19/09/2011, at 10:49 PM, Pascal Robert wrote: > Good morning everyone, > > As you may know, we want to register the association as a non-profit > organization in Canada. Since this is

Help on incorporating the WOCommunity Association

2011-09-19 Thread Pascal Robert
Good morning everyone, As you may know, we want to register the association as a non-profit organization in Canada. Since this is the first time I'm doing this, I would like input from you for the by-laws. You can find a draft in the wiki: http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOCOM