Legal Structure

Anyone have any information on this?

@robinstent-outreach there is no legal foundation so there can not be any legal structure either - except the code license stuff.

I think Diaspora Inc guys are drafting some plan about the foundation or legal future etc. Right now we should just concentrate on the code and community building. This legal stuff is just peanuts and gets way too much attention ;)

The only one who is involved in that is Sean.

@Sean, got any info for us?

Well if no-one is going to provide any info on this then I'll look into setting up a non-profit company in the UK. We need to be able to accept donations and be transparent about it to move this project forward.

@robinstent-outreach please be patient. You will find here message of @maxwellsalzberg saying it is on the launch.

@robinstent-outreach I was going to reply that hey chill and wait a bit but if you really want to use your resources to set up a company for the benefit of open source then go ahead ;)

But just don't try to associate it directly as being in some way officially linked to Diaspora Project without time and a lot of talk - which is what is happening all the time. These things take time and nothing good comes out of hurrying. But as for a non-profit company to accelerate development of Diaspora or anything else - hey why not!

I'm just frustrated because I think this is crucial to making significant progress on the project, and no-one is giving me any information about it.

All I want is for someone who knows the status in relation to this to tell me about it.

If someone said "we're 90% of the way there we just need to sign some paperwork" I'd say great I don't need to do anything.

Even if the status was "some of us have thought about it a bit but no-one has done anything" I'd be partly satisfied as at least that's a starting point to talk about things from.

I even emailed Sean a couple of days ago to ask him to participate in this discussion, but had no response.

So someone, please, throw me a bone.

@seantilley-communitymanager - manage the community! :)

Personally I think the project page is more important than the legal stuff. Please anyone who can, help moving the old wiki pages that are still relevant to the new wiki. I'm only seeing edits by mainly developers there at the moment..

@Jason, I want to organise some interns and to do that we need money, to get money we need to take donations, and we can't really do that without a constituted organisation to accept those donations.

Imagine how much development we could get done with, say, 5 full time interns.