Some comments:
First of all, I'm glad you're getting this off the ground. I like the 
goals and such.

But then I have one big basic question. You need to make a decision.

The site sends me two conflicting messages of what the foundation wants 
to be.
1. An organization to help the people around you that contribute to 
Squeak do so more effectively. This would be a good thing, and it seems 
well organized for that. You, Noury and Marcus have worked together 
quite a bit, and have the ability and focus to do more with some money 
from the community.
2. An organization meant to represent the wide Squeak community. This is 
supported by the wide base of the "Wises" and mainly by the goals and 
principles, which are quite general.

So I think either decision is good news for the community, but you do 
need to decide because:
If you intend to be somehow representative of the Squeak community (this 
is what I hope), you have to be open and actually representative. So:
1. it needs to be clear what the criteria/process is for people to get 
into the various lists. Currently, I have no idea how the "wises", 
"core" lists were decided. A vote? (and by who?) people.SqF.org masters? 
just everyone you thought of off the top of your head?
2. it needs to be clear what the relations are between the different 
groups. How is the exclusive sounding "wises" different from the 
ambigously explained mailing list? ("by invitation", but "if you think 
we forgot you we probably did", and "we need commited people, not 
mailing list members").
3. You have to make the decision who is in and who isn't actually be in 
the hands of the community.
4. Same goes for the decision power - what projects get funded, for 
example, needs to be controlled by either the funders or the community 
at large.
5. The server setup should be similar to the sqf.org site - several 
maintainers, distributed in time zones, and widely contributable (though 
not necessarily open wikis).

If you don't intend to be representative of the community, that's 
perfectly ok. To take an example, I'm very glad squeak-ev exists, and I 
have nothing to say about what its structure is. However, in this case, 
please don't call yourself the "Squeak Foundation".

After you've made this decision, and I know what this new foundation is, 
I'll probably go ahead and buy some merchendise and become a supporter 
either way, because I believe in the people and care about the goals, 
but currently you haven't clearly stated what you want it to be.

And what that decision is will determine my level of involvement.

Daniel

stéphane ducasse wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Since a year, we (marcus and me and some others) have been playing  with 
> the
> idea that Squeak deserves a foundation and after several tries, we  
> decided to doit!
> 
> Have a look at: http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/squeakfoundation
> 
> Now we are nearly ready for the prime time. We hope that you will like
> it and support it. Read the actions: http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/ 
> squeakfoundation/actions/ and the goals and principles: http:// 
> smallwiki.unibe.ch/squeakfoundation/foundationgoalsandprinciples/.
> 
> In a nutshell we want to make sure that we get an organization that  
> pushes the visibility of Squeak
> and that enables Squeak to be a platform of development for all kinds  
> of applications (educations,
> multimedia, web developments, research), but also support the  
> production of books, videos...
> We want to make sure that Squeak continues to be maintained even if  we 
> stop. We want to be able to
> pay a cleaner a day a week to support the harvesting and bug fixing.  
> Squeak needs to have more users and
> companies selling products with it, because the more we will be the  
> more we will be to fix and enhance
> the system.
> 
> Now this is not a private club,  if you want to REALLY help, you are  
> more then welcome,  we have a lot to do
> CD, DVD, merchandising, website, projects... But pay attention that  we 
> are looking for people not only talking :).
> 
> Now if you like the idea but you do not have the time but trust us  for 
> all the good job we did over the years
> then support the foundation, read the http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/ 
> squeakfoundation/supporters/ page.
> 
> To speed up the bootstrap we asked ESUG to host it and also to  sponsor 
> it. They accepted
> and gave us some money to start (2000 Euros) and noury the ESUG  
> treasurer accepted to
> have separate accounts and deal with the money issue.
> 
> 
> Stef, marcus, noury, and few others...
> 
>