Loco Council, or an alternative idea of what it could be :)

[Simón Ruiz]

While I was at the Ohio LinuxFest this past weekend, Bradley Kuhn was
talking about an organization he works with called the Software
Freedom Conservancy that does the sort of thing you're talking about.
<http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/>

The way I understand your argument, you're suggesting the creation of
an Ubuntu Community Conservancy. An international not-for-profit that
can offload and distribute the sorts of administrative and financial
overhead required for Ubuntu community teams (including LoCos, etc.)
to handle and administer money, so that each Ubuntu team can focus on
the work we got together to do without the burden of painful but
necessary administrative minutia.

Does that sounds right, Yann?

On first blush I don't think it's such a bad idea, or that it
conflicts/overlaps in any way with the Ubuntu Foundation.

It sounds to me like it would be a pretty massive undertaking, though.

Hope this finds you all having a great day!

Simón

On 10/2/07, Yann <yann.hamon at gmail.com> wrote:
> How could this issues be solved?
> A not-for-profit, or foundation, run by a council, could solve some of the
> problems. People and companies could give money to that foundation. Locos
> could give money to the foundation for specific projects (as part of a
> larger order for example), or as a global donation. The council would then
> decide what to do with the money. Donations made directly to locos would
> preferably be made in the form of goods or services instead of money, when
> possible.
> Having a foundation like this would allow locos who are not set as not for
> profit, to help fill the gap between what Canonical provides, and what they
> need to be successful. This would also solve the complications involved by
> having several different accounts, and solve the problem of people/companies
> wanting to help locoteams but who don't know to whom donate.
> There may be other solutions, and I would be happy to hear them :)