[Squeakfoundation]About Squeak Foundation

[ducasse]

Hi all,

I was waiting to get some emails from Dan but I cannot wait anymore. Sorry
Dan this is personal but I would like to see things moving a bit faster.

Last September Dave Thomas started to collect money for financing Squeak
Foundation. He contacted Dan and me because he was looking for a money host
that would not cost too much. So he contacted AITO the organizing commitee
of ECOOP and they agree that Squeak Foundation could use their accounting.

Then Dave contacted me and Dan to let us know and he got no reply since
then. I added the emails at the end of this one. I do not know if this is
wise but I'm fed up to wait.

So can the squeakfoundation react because there is really something to do.


For me having a better process for the release and the gathering of change
and improvements would be a real goal for the squeak foundation (beside
promoting squeak) because Squeak is open source with a really tiny open
because eveyrthing has to pass in the hand of SqueakCentral which is good
but also bad worth SqC like for nonSqC. So working on the module extension
would be a really important task of Squeak foundation.

Stef


Here are the emails:


December email

Hi Stephane,

Per the last email you had from me on the subject (Sept) AITO has agreed
to manage the funds. I have not heard back
from Dan on the email. I'm willing to help, but feel that there needs to
be more energy and interest on the part of
Squeak itself. 

Best Wishes For 2002,

Dave

Stephane Ducasse wrote:
> 
> Hi Dave and Dan
> 
> I would like to know what is the status of the Squeak foundation?
> Dave you mentioned to me that you collected money and were looking for a
> place to pay squeakers
> So what is the current status
> 
> Stef




First september email


I'm pleased to support that AITO, the non-profit company which sponsors
ECOOP and other events has
made a strong vote in favor of managing an account for this purpose.
While I don't expect the amount
of funding to be large (10-30K) would be my expectation, but potentially
bigger if we get some spin
and personal, family, group and corporate memberships like PBS TV in
US<grin>. Need to have coffee mugs, shirts, CDs etc.

I'm trying to encourage them to find a way of accepting credit cards. I
can always do it here in
Canada if needed and pass through to AITO. We also lack any mechanism to
issue tax receipts. But something is better than nothing and it will
cost nothing to get up and going and rest with a trusted
body.

In order to "open the doors" I AITO needs to have a simple mission
statement which passes the test of
the non-profit goals of AITO and a simple process for allocating the
funds. I 

Please take a look at my previous suggestions and provide me with some
words. 

I'll be speaking at Net.Object Days next week as will Alan for it would
be nice to announce the fund or at least pre announce. I'm prepared to
put in $10K to start the process off and would be happy to
do the PR thing next week with Alan if we can<g>

Regards,
Dave