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

[Peter Saint-Andre]

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On 1/10/13 6:08 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:
> 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.

Agreed. I can attest that you don't want to form an organization
unless you really need it, because it requires attention all on its
own. Better to provide good infrastructure for people who want to do
the work (source control, bug tracking, etc.) and farm out any of the
organized efforts to other groups (e.g., do the standardization at the
IETF or XSF).

Peter

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