SqF board report for April 06

It took us a little longer to assemble, discuss and produce than  
anticipated but if we want a reasonably worldwide representation on  
the board we have to accept some communication costs. However after  
all that, we hereby proudly present our report for you perusal.

SqF Board Report April 06
---------------------------------

The elections are over and the new board has been formed and started  
working.

As always, progress is not as fast as first imagined, but we think we  
are on a good track to get the Foundation
working for the benefit of the community. For anyone who missed the  
results the elected board is:-
Cees de Groot
Marcus Denker
Stephane Ducasse
Bert Freudenberg
Craig Latta
Yoshiki Ohshima
Tim Rowledge
as detailed on  http://tinyurl.com/gp4yz


Responsibilities
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After the elections, we distributed the responsibilities among the  
Squeak Foundation board Members
Here is the current list:

    http://www.squeak.org/Community/Teams/

If you have questions about a particular topic, don't hesitate to  
contact the responsible board member.

Setting up an Organization
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We agreed to ask ESUG to maintain our money for now. This is the  
simplest
way to operate until we really sort out a legal body of our own. A  
very interesting possibility we are exploring
is to work with the Software Freedom Conservancy http://
conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/
(Thanks to Ron Teitelbaum for this interesting contact!).

Squeak Licencing
----------------------
As everyone who's subscribed to the squeak-dev list knows, it's  
impossible to not discuss
licensing on a list that's about squeak... so we inaugurated the list  
with our own License
discussion (phew... now it can rest for some time ;-)). The only  
thing we can say for now is that
there is new activity around licensing and we will report more as  
soon as we can.

Misc
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- We've agreed to try to centralize the resources, that is, all  
important services and servers will be
   migrated to the SqF hardware.
   (a suddenly disappearing updates server again showed how important  
this is!)
-  we provided a simple 'about Squeak' project to go into the new  
Croquet release
- Contacted Google wrt. to Google Summer of Code 06, we have been  
rejected (Application was too late)
- Started to discuss with ESUG about doing our own (small) Summer of  
Code event.
- and as most people will have noticed we are currently involved in  
trying to work out a good way to provide newcomer support and education

Next Steps
-------------
The most important next steps are:

-> Set up a website for SqF
-> Form a formal organisation
-> Make sure several board members have the assorted keys to access  
servers etc. in case of problems, illness, war, plague, acts of Dog,  
etc.

Many thanks to Marcus for putting together the first version of this  
report.

tim
--
tim Rowledge; [hidden email]; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
Useful random insult:- Has a pulse, but that's about all.