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<font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">This will
also apply to MeeGo/JollaMobile efforts?<br>
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Howard.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/07/2012 17:06, robert bauer
wrote:<br>
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<div>Hello,</div>
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<div>In order to continue the community at <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.maemo.org/"
target="_blank">www.maemo.org</a> in the future, it will be
necessary to migrate much of the infrastructure and associated
elements to a new site and to establish a separate entity for
that purpose. See generally <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84933"
target="_blank">http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84933</a>. The
attached bylaws are proposed for discussion. Please note that
this is primarily a legal document and this is not the
appropriate place to discuss many of the issues associated with
the actual migration of the community. </div>
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<div>The first thing you may notice is the name. Because Maemo is
trademarked by Nokia and we don't want to experience problems,
or even delay, while the issue is worked out, we have decided to
suggest Hildon Foundation as the name. There is also a
recognition that Maemo may be regarded as having commercially
tarnished by Nokia's negligence of the software, and so it might
be good to use a different name in any event. Either one of the
domain names <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.maemocommunity.org/" target="_blank">www.maemocommunity.org</a>
and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.hildonfoundation.org/" target="_blank">www.hildonfoundation.org</a>
have been registered and will be available for the community if
we choose to use them.</div>
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<div>Because this is a legal document, the discussion of the
mission is broadly stated in historical context so that the
entity has much flexibility. Although Maemo and Hildon are
mentioned, this should not be regarded as any implication at all
that Qt, Harmattan, CSSU, Cordia, kp, or any other
specific software related to Maemo will not be supported by the
entity.</div>
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<div>The operations of the NPE allow it to cooperate with Nokia,
Jolla, or other commercial entity. However, the entity is
obligated to itself permanently be an open source organization.
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<div>Perhaps the section of most interest and discussion will be
Membership and Governance. It is suggested that we keep the
present "open" nature of the maemo community to the extent
practical. But this is not meant to be predetermined and
alternative structures may be proposed and adopted. It is also
unknown whether a voting mechanism opf the current maemo
infrastructure will continue to be available. The composition
of the initial Board also needs to be carefully determined and
this is surrounded by brackets.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>The finances and budgets will be worked out once the entity
is in place and can establish a bank account.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>The jurisdiction does not dictate the location of the servers
or repositories, or the nationality of the Board members.
Pennsylvania is suggested because it has more lax requirements
than Delaware and better suited for smaller organizations.
Europe is also available and so the jurisdiction is surrounded
by brackets. The main considerations are speed and start-up
costs.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Council discussed a prior draft of the bylaws at its July 6
meeting and you may refer to the logs for that discussion.
Please don't take offense if an issue important to you has not
been mentioned in this mail - please raise it and discuss it as
you wish.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Rob (SD69)</div>
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