29 Jan
2004
29 Jan
'04
11:15 p.m.
I'd like
to have a clearer understanding of what the legal>
situation of the Consortium is (or is planned to be).
At the moment it has no
legal status, in any country. This is what I
was planning: 1. Register post office box (here in the UK) as the
contact address of
the linuxaudio.org consortium (I've sent off the forms, I'm just
waiting for the Royal Mail to do their bit). It would be great to
have an office for the project and staff, but realistically the
resources aren't in place yet.
<snip>
From there on my management role will end, as
democratically speaking
I wouldn't be able to supervise myself. It's then up to the
Management Board to decide if they want to form a legal organisation,
replace me with someone who could do a better job etc etc.
But if your role would end, and you wouldn't be able to supervise,
who would handle the post then?
2. Contact all the member projects to make sure they
have named a
representative for the Management Board, subscribe these people to
the Management mailing list, and announce the formation of the Board.
Consider it a troll (again) but i have to say this:
From a legal point of view, it's just a bunch of
projects and companies
listed on a site, the domain is entirely in the hands of
Daniel.
I just can't understand why there's a need for a virtual consortium under a
such attractive and useful domain.
An organisation should be the last step in promoting linuxaudio.
There are lots of issues which need to be solved before an organisation can be
established.
And i fear that it will involve another mailing-list, what's worse, a private one.
The managment board mailing list.
As the software is open source itself, why is there any need for private mailinglists?
Is there anything we should hide?
On the subject of subdomains, I think it's a good
idea, but I am keen
to avoid duplication of effort.
<snip>
As for the domain name, I did register it myself and
it currently has
my home address on the WHOIS records. As soon as I know what the post
office box number is, I will change the records. There has to be a
named contact for billing and technical though, so if no-one objects
I'll leave myself as the contact for billing for now.
I don't want
the domain to expire in a couple of years time because no-on else
remembered to renew it!
Seems like all my words were worthless. I'd register it and redirect it to LAD (and
LAU) homepage first.
Then i'd just pester Joern with the plans i have mentioned before.
Worst case scenario - it would end up pointing to LAD and LAU homepage.
Marek