Hello everyone: We have published a draft set of formation documents for the Zope Foundation. A zip file of the complete set of docs is available online at: o http://tinyurl.com/7crf8 The next steps in the process are: o Community review, comment, incorporate feedback cycle(s) (one or two?) o Submit final drafts to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) for iteration/editing/polishing o Form the Foundation! :^) Please participate in the review and comment period. You can do so via IRC and/or email. o IRC: We have scheduled the following IRCs to discuss the docs in real time: Who: Zope Community What: IRC to discuss Zope Foundation formation documents. Where: #zope on irc.freenode.net When: #1: Fri, Dec 9, 730a - 9a (US/EST) #2: Tue, Dec 20, 730a - 830a (US/EST) US/EST is GMT-5. o Email: We've also created a mailing list for Foundation-related topics. This list is available at: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation Please subscribe to this list for email-based discussions of the foundation. We would like to thank the formation review committee for their careful work reading, reviewing and commenting on the drafts up to this point. o Takeshi Yamamoto, CEO, Zope Japan KK o Jan Smith, OzZope o Jean-Marc Orliaguet, Chalmers University/CPSSkins o Kit Blake, CEO, Infrae o Christian Theune, CEO, Gocept and DZUG o Eric Barroca, Managing Partner, Nuxeo o Hadar Pedhazur, Chairman, Zope Corp o Rob Page, CEO, Zope Corp o Rajesh Setty, Chairman, Cignex o Dan Ravicher, Legal Director, Software Freedom Law Center o Karen Sandler, Counsel, Software Freedom Law Center Finally, Kit Blake and Jan Smith have been kind enough to volunteer to work on a FAQ. We will work to get this public in the near future. Special thanks to them - I imagine their FAQ work will increase somewhat for the next couple of weeks. :^) Regards, Rob -- Rob Page V: 540 361 1710 Zope Corporation F: 703 995 0412