[OTR-dev] What about an OTR org.?

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Greg Troxel wrote:

> David Goulet <dgoulet at ev0ke.net> writes:
>
>> So here goes. I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to try to
>> create an OTR foundation or non profit organization or whatever we can
>> think of (OTR project à la Tor) that would basically regroup libotr

> This conflates two separate things:
>
>  nonprofit structure and registration
>
>  a group of people to actually do things
>
> Setting up a nonprofit in the US is hard and takes years; one needs to
> have a board, file annual reports, etc.  I suspect it's just as hard in
> Canada.   This has very little to do with actually hacking on code.

Indeed, and would only take away more time from the coding part for
those people involved.

The real issue is getting good people with free time.

Paul