[squeakland] New Squeakland Board

[Yoshiki Ohshima]

At Thu, 6 May 2010 23:48:11 +0200,
Rita Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> Dear Squeakers,
> 
> I'm happy to tell you that we have a new Squeakland Board in place! On  
> our last board meeting at April, 27 we came up with a list of  
> candidates, and everyone accepted. We now have Rita Freudenberg,  
> Cathleen Galas, Walter Bender, Scott Wallace, Ted Kaehler, Randall  
> Caton, Elliot Miranda, Cherry Withers, Kathleen Harness, Marta  
> Voelker, Milan Zimmerman, Carlos Rabassa, and Korakurider on the board.
> 
> http://www.squeakland.org/about/people/

  Cool!

> I want to thank everyone on the previous board for all the work you  
> did during the last year, especially the leaving board members Kim  
> Rose, Yoshiki Oshima, and Tim Falconer.

  Sure and thank you.

> On the meeting, we also discussed how to proceed with the  
> incorporation of Squeakland. We decided to apply to become a member of  
> the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). This is a 501(c)(3)  
> organisation, and all members will get this status, too. Also, SFC  
> will handle the tax issues. SFC is focused on free and open source  
> software projects. We will find out, if Squeakland is eligible, since  
> we do not only focus on software, but on education, too. We plan to  
> have monthly board meetings, and publish meeting notes afterwards. Let  
> us know if you are interested in joining the meetings!

  Ok... SFC has to make sure that Etoys meets their standard or not.
It may take sometime (either to clarify the status of the current
implemention in the way the trunk people did, or get the new
distribution out on the package based implementation; I guess the
former is easier).  But hopefully it doesn't take too long.

-- Yoshiki