Since a name for the association has not been yet defined, here are the two suggestions given.
- Sailmakers
- Sailmates
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Since a name for the association has not been yet defined, here are the two suggestions given.
0 voters
Though one can easily see that real capital may bring changes to Jolla ('s company policies & mindset), especially this year, I doubt that any “intellectual capital” will, which is not monetarily valuable.
Plus (the likely anticipated point), Jolla’s heading WRT licensing, acceptable licenses, community interactions (with users, app developers and SailfishOS contributors) etc. has been quite steady over the past 10 years. Though the community interactions have been slightly but continuously improving over the last two years, I cannot see that the interactions with the developer community may ever reach the level and scope of, e.g., Fedora’s developer community and RedHat (now: IBM) employees.
now @olf will convince me otherwise
Not really, everybody is free to believe whatever one likes.
I am fine with being able to state what I consider as probable and to reason why.
But more seriously …
… while reading this discussion thread, it became apparent that many considerations have been addressing the “How?” (possible legal forms of a “cooperative”, requirements for that, properties of different legal forms etc.), but the “Why?” and more specifically the “What for?” (goals, purposes, envisioned actions etc. of the “cooperative”) has been only fuzzily sketched at the start of this thread.
IMO it is crucial to answer this triple (goals, purposes and envisioned actions) first, at best accompanied by some statements delimiting the scope of these goals, purposes and actions of the “cooperative” (i.e., what is not within its scope).
Some very basic questions which come to my mind WRT “goals, purposes and actions”:
To keep it brief, I certainly see a mix. One set of goals is to support the mapping developers with infrastructure which can, in turn, extend their ability to support end users. That’s not SFOS specific. Some SFOS specific work, the calendar, for instance, might contribute up stream.
I believe your correct that carefully delimiting the goals and then prioritizing them is important.
My own personal agenda is to bring more public funding, donations and to attract developers to make mobile Linux a viable alternative to iOS and Android.
So @olf, to answer your questions, personally I would:
Try to address all mobile Linux users, not just SFOS
Invest in apps, but also OS components, where needed
Hi olf, glad you asked those questions, they were asked in the document during it’s redaction too.
This is the first goal yes although it wasnt specified so in the association’s text in order not to block actions in the future if tables turn.
The association is not some kind of union to defend users interest. It’s a form of using member’s contribution for financing projects arround SFOS (you can see dcalist list above)
Do you mean as, by developers for developers ? Where devs would gather together for some reason ? No. It’s for everyone.
Those are questions members will have to vote for. We cannot specify such things in the statutes or we would limit the association’s goals. IE: we identify a desperate need for this functionality in SFOS but we said in our statutes that we would only finance apps.
Feel free to read and contribute to the statutes (link above) if you already haven’t.
and what I said is no definitive truth. Things can change and dont need to follow my sole opinion. That’s why members vote.
Hmmm. Trying to do comments (using the bubble tool in the toolbar) having selected texts to comment on didn’t work for me? I could reply to existing comments.
Ah, got it. I was selecting things that had already been commented on by extending the selection too far.
Oh, I saw but then forgot to follow that link, because this discussion thread has become lengthy and convoluted.
I will try to take a closer look at it (and likely comment) next week.
To provide the Etherpad / Cryptpad link to the draft of the statutes for this association again:
One week after posting the association’s name poll, we’ve got a winner : “Sailmates” (congratulation @harbourlights for the name)
Since all comments were answered in the cryptpad statutes, I will start translating the document and will post it here again (this time in German).
The remaining steps are :
Regarding the latter point, if you wish to be part of the founding members, i need your original signature on the original annex document. Therefore, it will be easier if you are coming to the Austrian meeting because I’ll bring the documents and you can sign it there.
If you aren’t, this is the other solution:
The required information that I need from all founding members are :
As you can see it’s not the simplest solution. So to be sure to receive the signed annex document before the 8th October, I need the information by next Wednesday. Good think is, no need to sign the statutes only the annex document so even if the German correction of the statutes is not ready by Wednesday, I can still send the annex document.
Unfortunately, due to the “short” time frame, it wouldn’t be safe to send the document outside of EU, due to postal delivery delays (ie: Austria → Canada → Japan → Austria would take some time). So I will have to limit the founding members to the EU.
EDIT: Of course you can MP/Telegram/Signal/SMS me this information.
Here is the link for the German official document:
For German speakers, please do not correct directly on the document but instead write a comment.
Happy to have contributed - all best for the Sailmates!
Hi, I’m interested in the “Verein” to support software development. Is it already possible to join the Verein?
One more question: If you implement better packages or solve bugs in the SFOS, how is guaranteed, that Jolla will “accept the neccesary pull-requests”?
I think it’s fair to say that there’s no guarantee a particular pull-request will be accepted. After a pull request is created, it will be reviewed by one or more developers from Jolla, who may ask for changes and it’s quite common for a pull request to go through more than one review round.
We have an “Open Pull Requests” section each community meeting that’s set aside for raising pull requests that have got stuck for whatever reason, or need discussion. You or anyone else is always welcome to raise something there.
Hi Speedy, I’m so sorry, I was sure I had replied to your comment. We are finishing a few things to be able to open to everyone else (bureaucracy mostly).
PS: We never thought our pull requests would get guaranteed acception from Jolla. First because, when someone does a pull request, the reviewer has to review the code. But most importantly because Jolla is the owner of the repo.
Hi jojo,
ok, I write it more diplomatically:
I hope that Jolla will check all pull-requests promptly and in the interest of Jolla and the community will do them soon (if there are no problems).
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