On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 00:37 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Inkscape's been growing by leaps and bounds this last year, thanks to all the efforts of its community. Part of the growth process requires formalizing certain things - such as how we handle Inkscape's finances.
I agree, I think this is an important step.
However, before this becomes official, there are three things I think we need to do: First is to give the community the opportunity to voice any questions or concerns before anything gets set. Second, we need to review the agreement that the SFC requires us to sign. Third, we need to select a set of official representatives who will sign the Agreement papers that cause Inkscape to become part of the SFC.
As part of this, we need to decide how official (monetary) decisions will be made by Inkscape. This is required by the SFC mainly so there is a defined way for determining how funds will be spent. Do we require a full concensus of the Inkscape representatives? A simple majority? Or is the word of any one representatives enough? My own feeling is that a simple majority (3 out of 4 reps) is enough.
We also will need to have a defined procedure for adding/removing representatives.
Okay, if no one else is going to be a lightening rod :)
I think the only reasonable 'group' that we could define as having any authority would be the four people listed as founders. Now, I'm not saying that they (particularly me) have made better contributions than other folks on this list, but I'm looking for something that is agreeable.
For the sake of discussion, I'm going to call this group the board.
From then on, I think we should keep things simple. A person can be
added to the board by a vote of the board. Same with removal. I imagine there will be a few adds starting out, but then things will die down significantly.
Thoughts?
--Ted