[Zope-dev] Re: Nuxeo supports Zope Corp announces

[Stefane Fermigier]

Has my message been rejected (from zope-dev) or not ?

I'm confused.

	S.

Stefane Fermigier wrote:
> Paul Everitt wrote:
> 
>> Other foundations approach things a bit differently.  (I did quite a  
>> bit of research on this for the Plone Foundation.)
> 
> 
> Eric has done some research recently on the different successful Open 
> Source / Free Software foundations out there that have the mission to 
> develop and promote great software.
> 
> We're looking for a model that is just as acceptable for the single 
> developers (who are a very key elements in the community, and provide 
> some of the best work around - see Stefan or Philip for instance, but 
> there are many others whitout whom Zope and specially Zope3 would not 
> exist as we know them today) but also for the companies and 
> organisations that depend on Zope for their business and are willing to 
> commit ressources to the development of the software (this includes 
> software development houses like Zope Corp, Infrae, Nuxeo and 10s of 
> others, but also companies or universities or non-profit that depend on 
> Zope for their ongoing operation - like Chalmers university or like the 
> SD houses customers).
> 
> IMHO, "vendor-neutral" means, in this context, that the Foundation must 
> take into account the interests of all the stakeholders (individual 
> hackers, vendors, customers), and shouldn't be interpreted as 
> "vendor-free".
> 
> The governance model should take that into account, and not limit itself 
> to "only individuals are members" (of course, companies are represented 
> by individuals, but what happens if the individual in question leaves a 
> member company for another?).
> 
> Anyway, the model I have in mind it the one of the Eclipse Foundation, 
> but I haven't done that much research, and as I said before, I am very 
> open to discussion.
> 
> I hope we will be able to discuss this further next week, but also that 
> these discussions will be able to procede with the technical side of 
> things during the sprint next week.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>     S.
> 
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