discuss: LDP Incorporate under "Software in the Public Interest"
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Re: [discuss] LDP Incorporate under "Software in the Public Interest"
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
4 Nov 2007 08:38:46 +0000
Message-Id: <20071104083300.GE2098@davespc>
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 09:54:15AM -0600, Ian Hakes wrote:
> I think this is a good idea. Having access to a larger pool of volunteers
> might help with tasks like translation, Docbook encoding, etc, so that LDP
> can reach a larger audience, and is more accessible to general technical
> writers.
With the simple LinuxDoc available, encoding in DocBook is not a high
priority task IMO. Translation is done by people in non-English
speaking countries so this is not a high priority task either. But
volunteers are needed as authors and to help maintain our website as
well as for creating a content managment system (like Plone) and also
a wiki. We also need better follow up for people who propose to write
howtos for us, etc. Someone need to sort out old howtos and determine
which ones are too far out of date, etc. We also need recruiters and
reviewers. Thus we need volunteers to do administrative tasks.
I think that before we accept people to help administer LDP, they
should have either written at least one good document, either for LDP
or elsewhere. In order to help admisinister an organization that
has authors hopefully writing good quality documentation, the
administrators should at least be capable of doing the same.
> I would like to hear more about what specific advantages/costs would
> be associated with joining SPI though.
>
> Cheers, Ian Hakes DB2 for Linux Howto
>
>David Lawyer
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>Subjectl [discuss] LDP Incorporate under "Software in the Public Interest"
(I've deleted the "A" typo. DL)
> Several months ago I started a discussion about getting an EIN
> number from the IRS but found that it wouldn't help much. Then the
> discussion changed to possible incorporation of LDP but nothing
> happened. So now I'm proposing that we become a part of "Software
> in the Public Interest" (SPI) if they will accept us. That way we
> remain independent but are incorporated under the umbrella
> organization, SPI.
>
> One significant reason for doing this is so that we can use
> "Volunteer Match" to recruit volunteers. I'm not sure it will help
> all that much but I think that it's worth a try. We will likely
> recruit people that have free time and are actively searching the
> Internet for volunteer opportunities. They will be the ones who
> want to work at a "virtual" location and select the category
> "Computers and Technology". They may not know Linux all that well
> but at least they will have free time to work on it, otherwise they
> wouldn't be seeking volunteer work.
>
> To do this, I don't think we need any by-laws, etc. Our manifesto
> is sort of a substitute for by-laws. It would be nice to have a
> leader however. I've been reading old emails that I never got
> around to reading and realize that Guylhem did a lot of work
> arranging for LDP to have a presence at some Linux expositions, etc.
> So do you agree that I (or we) should ask SPI to take us under their
> umbrella?
>
> I understand that the way it works is that we are free to leave SPI
> if we decide to. Then we would no longer be incorporated and would
> probably want to incorporate on our own if we found it advantageous
> to be a corporation. I'll need to look into how SPI would handle
> and invest our money.
>
> David Lawyer
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