5 May
2004
5 May
'04
2:46 p.m.
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re all,
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 10:28:58AM +0100, Daniel James wrote:
For the benefit of people who weren't able to
attend, I'll summarise
the result of the linuxaudio.org meeting at the International Linux
Audio Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany last week.
thanks Daniel!
The two main issues that were discussed were the legal
status of the
linuxaudio.org consortium, and website consolidation.
On the first point, several people thought that the organisation could
benefit by becoming a legal entity, such as a registered
not-for-profit organisation. This possibility raises several
questions. In which country would it be registered? How would the
inevitable overhead caused by bureauracy be handled so that it did
not disproportionately consume advocacy resources? Could official
status actually restrict consortium activities?
there are good conditions for establishing a Foundation in Netherlands,
which can be then considered a non-profit organization in other european
countries (in Italy AFAIK a foundation is something different from what
it is in NL).
The good conditions essentially consist in thinner beaurocracy and low
prices: with approx 500 euros one can cover all the costs needed.
I can further investigate this opportunity while i'm in Amsterdam (until
end of june), if you all think is worthwhile.
I also agree that a foundation/non-profit-org is a good way to shape our
efforts, as long we are enough people (AFAIK a min of 8 is needed) and
we have a clear (and one could say strong) motivation for our mission.
The consortium could help here by co-ordinating a
reorganisation of
sites around the most appropriate domain names, using sub-domains
where appropriate. Then content management systems could be used to
spread the work of maintaining sites among teams of editors.
Naturally there would have to be legacy links in place to make sure
that information was not lost.
good idea.
tech-wise i suggest to first evaluate the use of RSS feeds to do that,
that could be a first working exchange of links and infos. At least
the linuxaudio page could start publishing a feed that others can
include..
ciao!
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