Loomio
Wed 18 Sep 2013 8:13AM

Organization Structure

PP Pirate Praveen Public Seen by 741

I propose we create a constitution for ourselves and define membership and responsibilities.

Also we can use Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (http://smc.org.in) as a legal custodian of our assets similar to how SPI handles assets and financial transactions for debian project.

Update (09/02/2017): We need to revisit this thread now and finish this task of defining a structure.

  1. Each sub team like poddery.com maintainers or git.fosscommunity.in should be able to take technical decisions independently. We can have them like special teams in debian (FTP masters, release team etc).
  2. We can create email accounts for official members
  3. Any time contribution to Free Software should be enough to get a membership (be it coding, design, support, publicity etc)
  4. Their contribution should be vouched by existing members (we can have initial members from this loomio group/riot group/mailing list).
  5. This structure can help us make official statements with everyone given a fair opportunity to comment.
  6. Ownership of assets like domains could be given to legal entities like SMC. Just like debian, we can have multiple organizations as trusted organizations to keep assets. We can ask other groups like DFF, SFLC, DAKF etc

Basically we need ensure we can sustain these services even if the current maintainers become inactive (I want to make myself redundant).

Further reading:

  1. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/TrustedOrganizationCriteria has criteria debian uses to select trusted organizations.

  2. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Auditor/Organizations has list of organizations trusted by debian.

  3. https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-9 is the section about trusted organizations.

Update (10/02/2017):

Preamble:

  1. Free Software Community of India is a collective of Free Software (sometimes also called as Open Source Software) users, advocates and developers.
  2. We maintain communication and collaboration infrastructure for everyone that respects their freedom and privacy.
  3. We depend on donations and community manpower to run the infrastructure.
  4. We maintain a list of Free Software communities and offer sub domains of fsug.in or fosscommunity.in
  5. We mentor Free Software enthusiasts to become Free Software contributors.
  6. We provide GNU/Linux installation and configuration support via online messaging groups.
AKS

Akhil Krishnan S
Disagree
Sun 29 Sep 2013 4:03AM

Quoting sooraj's opinion
"SMC is entirely different entity with different objectives."

MK

Manoj Karingamadathil
Agree
Tue 1 Oct 2013 8:00AM

am ok with this.

PP

Pirate Praveen Wed 18 Sep 2013 5:16PM

@manukrishnantv we just need someone to handle legal side, so geography is not an issue, I think.

MKT

Manu Krishnan T V Wed 18 Sep 2013 5:22PM

It was just my opinion. Lets see what others think.

PP

Pirate Praveen Mon 23 Sep 2013 6:57AM

@balasankarchelamat providing logistical support to Free Software communities is one of the core objectives of SMC (society).

SK

Sooraj Kenoth Sun 29 Sep 2013 6:40PM

@akhilkrishnans I have a small correction. That statement was a mistake from me. I was not an active participant in fosscommunity.in. When saw the discussion, I thought it is about pirate movement. Personally I don't like to connect pirate movement with SMC. So I blocked it. When I realized the mistake I corrected it. I apologise for the mistake I made.

BC

Balasankar C Mon 30 Sep 2013 11:38AM

To make things transparent, shouldn't the SMC members (who are not member of FCI) have a word on the issue?? Why don't we make it like this - FCI is requesting SMC to be its legal supporter, SMC places the discussion in front of its members, SMC members decide what to do. If they are fine, lets do it.

I don't think, the stuff involving another organization should be discussed in a platform like this. SMC must be informed formally about this request (via mail so that everyone knows) and let them respond.

AS

Anish Sheela Mon 30 Sep 2013 3:42PM

@balasankarchelamat Yes. You are right. That need to be second step. After this discussion closes, we can discuss in SMC mailing list and can give a letter to SMC from us describing the situation.

This voting is solely for consent from FCI members regarding this.

Once they accept it, then only this become possible. If not, we propose alternatives. That's my thought on this.

BC

Balasankar C Fri 18 Oct 2013 4:04PM

I believe SMC's General Assembly agreed to this request.

PP

Pirate Praveen Thu 9 Feb 2017 5:30AM

We need to revisit this thread now and finish this task of defining a structure.

  1. Each sub team like poddery.com maintainers or git.fosscommunity.in should be able to take technical decisions independently. We can have them like special teams in debian (FTP masters, release team etc).
  2. We can create email accounts for official members
  3. Any time contribution to Free Software should be enough to get a membership (be it coding, design, support, publicity etc)
  4. Their contribution should be vouched by existing members (we can have initial members from this loomio group/riot group/mailing list).
  5. This structure can help us make official statements with everyone given a fair opportunity to comment.
  6. Ownership of assets like domains could be given to legal entities like SMC. Just like debian, we can have multiple organizations as trusted organizations to keep assets. We can ask other groups like DFF, SFLC, DAKF etc

Basically we need ensure we can sustain these services even if the current maintainers become inactive (I want to make myself redundant).

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