Episode 0x0B: Free Software Project Non-Profit Existence

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x0B_Non-Profit.ogg"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_ogg_button.png"/></a> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x0B_Non-Profit.mp3"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in MP3 format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_mp3_button.png"/></a> </p> <p> <p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley</a> and <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/#karen">Karen</a> have an introductory discussion on how non-profit governance interacts with Free Software projects and what issues are important for developers who want their project to have a non-profit existence.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:37)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley and Karen began the discussion by <a href="http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20110221140417338">commenting on this blog post by Andy Updegrove about non-profit governance</a>. (01:50)</li> <li>Bradley and Karen tend to agree that non-profit settings are better places to foster and help Free Software development. (03:40)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that <a href="http://www.frob.com/~roland/">Roland McGrath</a> wrote GNU C Library (and other GNU programs) while working as an employee at the <a href="http://fsf.org">FSF</a>, and many of those programs are now often maintained by Red Hat (or other company's) developers, under the auspices of the GNU project, as overseen by the FSF. (04:50)</li> <li>Corporate form and organization questions should be secondary to project leadership ones. (09:50)</li> <li>One of the most important things is to have an organization in a place where people are willing to do the work to keep the organization going. (20:10)</li> <li>Enthusiasm to keep the organization running is the most important resource for running the organization. (22:26)</li> </ul> <hr width="80%"/> <p>Send feedback and comments on the cast to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a>. You can keep in touch with <a href="https://faif.us">Free as in Freedom</a> on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by <a href="http://identi.ca/conservancy">following Conservancy on identi.ca</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/conservancy">and Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Free as in Freedom is produced by <a href="http://danlynch.org/blog/">Dan Lynch</a> of <a href="http://danlynch.org/">danlynch.org</a>. Theme music written and performed by <a href="http://www.miketarantino.com">Mike Tarantino</a> with <a href="http://www.charliepaxson.com">Charlie Paxson</a> on drums.</p> <p><a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" hspace=10 /></a> The content of <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound" rel="dc:type">this audcast</span>, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a>. </p>