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

[David Goulet]

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Peter Saint-Andre:
> 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).
> 

At what point can you say Yes to:

"you don't want to form an organization unless you really need it"

I'm in a CA of a non profit organization and I agree, it is quite an
overhead in terms of non coding time so the creation of such entity
should be carefully evaluated if it would help the project/community
go forward faster.

Thanks!
David

> Peter
> 
> -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
> 
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