Great job on starting this effort to consolidate useful components around our apps!.
I was not aware of this and I think it is fascinating (including the fact that they have two Trolltech advising members). For those who haven’t the time to read the whole page, sounds to me like it’s a legal agreement between the foundation and every Qt owner since 1998 Trolltech, to make sure that the Qt remains available and properly licensed…
I was going to say that maybe the first step to be in a similar situation would be to… well, have Silica “available and properly licenced”, and of course I found the Dec 2020 community meeting question and the answer… Maybe it needs a recurring community meeting question.
Regarding the ping:
We haven’t yet started acting with actual expenses from the membership fees and donations, but this should be on our radar and I’ll raise the point internally too. Maybe this also fits a potential funding application Sailmates can apply to.
(Personally I also had a couple of month of hiatus (“real life happens” +/- other SFOS related work) but I plan to get back on track shortly.)
(btw, Did you know you can just ping @sailmates for these kinds of ideas?)