Tux4Kids becoming part of SPI (Software in the Public Interest) - any objections!?

Briefly,

Tux4Kids is participating in Google Summer of Code 2008.
As a mentoring organization, Tux4Kids is to receive money from Google
($500 per student we've mentored, or $5500).

Tux4Kids is not a non-profit organization, or part of any (such as OSEF)
at this time.  Therefore, one of us (most likely: me) would need to
receive the money from Google, and redistribute it to the other mentors.
This could impact that person's income tax.

Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is a non-profit that's an
umbrella organization for a number of mentoring organizations in this
year's GSOC program (and has been in the past).  As a non-profit,
they're able to accept the mentor payments, and distribute them to
the mentors of those organizations, without taking a tax hit.

It appears that SPI is interested in Tux4Kids becoming a member
project (other member projects of SPI include Debian, OpenOffice.org,
Drupal, freedesktop.org, PostgreSQL and wxWidgets), and is willing to
accept GSOC payment on our behalf this year.  (They only ask that
(1) they keep 5% of the mentor payment ($275) for administrative costs and
(2) if we change our minds about becoming an SPI member project,
we donate all of the money to SPI.)


To all of you who consider yourself part of one or more of the projects
currently under the 'Tux4Kids' umbrella ("Tux Paint", "Tux, of Math Command"
and "Tux Typing II"), do you have any objection to this?

At this point, I'm not sure who will be 'head' of Tux4Kids under SPI,
but I'm more than happy to.  I'm not 100% sure what SPI needs from us
(e.g., in terms of structure of our member project's organization)
but I've skimmed over their Bylaws and Cert. of Incorporation, and it
seems a good fit to me.

Their website is at:  http://www.spi-inc.org/

Thanks in advance,

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[David Bruce-5]

Hi,


> It appears that SPI is interested in Tux4Kids becoming a member
> project (other member projects of SPI include Debian, OpenOffice.org,
> Drupal, freedesktop.org, PostgreSQL and wxWidgets),

We're in good company!

> To all of you who consider yourself part of one or more of the projects
> currently under the 'Tux4Kids' umbrella ("Tux Paint", "Tux, of Math Command"
> and "Tux Typing II"), do you have any objection to this?
>

I think it's a great idea

David Bruce

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[David Sivertsen]

Go for it!
David Sivertsen
Tech Coordinator
Miller Area School District
Miller, SD

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SPI(Software in the Public Interest) - any objections!?

Hi,


> It appears that SPI is interested in Tux4Kids becoming a member
> project (other member projects of SPI include Debian, OpenOffice.org,
> Drupal, freedesktop.org, PostgreSQL and wxWidgets),

We're in good company!

> To all of you who consider yourself part of one or more of the projects
> currently under the 'Tux4Kids' umbrella ("Tux Paint", "Tux, of Math
Command"
> and "Tux Typing II"), do you have any objection to this?
>

I think it's a great idea

David Bruce

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[Steve Karg]

Hi Bill,

> To all of you who consider yourself part of one or more of the projects
> currently under the 'Tux4Kids' umbrella ("Tux Paint", "Tux, of Math Command"
> and "Tux Typing II"), do you have any objection to this?

I have no objection to this.

> At this point, I'm not sure who will be 'head' of Tux4Kids under SPI,
> but I'm more than happy to.

You should be the head.

Best Regards,

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On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 05:44:07PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
<snip>
> Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is a non-profit that's an
> umbrella organization for a number of mentoring organizations in this
> year's GSOC program (and has been in the past).
<snip>

So far, response from everyone who's bothered responding has been positive,
and most people seem to think I'd be a good Point-of-Contact
between Tux4Kids and SPI.  I'd be honored to accept.

Some good reading on the subject:

  http://www.spi-inc.org/secretary/joining-spi-projects.html
which points to:
  http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/2004-08-10-iwj.1

As a summary, SPI provides two main services to projects:
* Property
  This includes Money (donations and holding), Intellectual Property
  (copyrights) and Other (for example, hardware)
* Legal advice and Representation

I spoke briefly with Bdale Garbee, president of Software in the Public
Interest.  (Also happens to be Linux CTO at Hewlett-Packard :^) )

He said:

  what matters to SPI is that there is someone (individual, can be an
  assigned role that changes like the elected Debian Project Leader) we
  can treat as authoritatively speaking for the project in matters
  involving distribution of the project's assets, etc

  we don't really care how the project is structured internally

  as long as the project's objectives match our charter, and everyone
  understands that we must always act in accordance with applicable
  laws, the rules regarding contributions to 501(c)3 organizations, etc,
  then we're nearly there

  a number of our associated projects don't have large or complex
  structures, part of the reason SPI exists is to help projects avoid
  needing to (re-)build legal existence overhead when it's just a
  distraction from getting the real work done

I said: "only question now is:  what's next?", to which he responded:

  take the text of the sample resolution, fill in all
  the blanks, and send me the resulting draft.  I'll look it over, tweak
  if necessary, and put it up where contributing members can comment
  prior to our next board meeting

  given that we're more than two weeks out, I think we
  could safely put it on the agenda for the Sept meeting

  you should also suggest that all the relevant
  participants in tux4kids consider becoming SPI contributing members if
  they aren't already, so that they will have a voice (vote) in SPI
  activities.  And pass the draft resolution by them in case they have
  any concerns or suggestions.

  finally, you should plan to attend the SPI board
  meeting (here) where the resolution is reviewed and voted on, so that
  any final questions can get answered, and the invitation can be
  immediately accepted if the vote passes

(Where "here" is the public #spi IRC channel on irc.oftc.net, and
"two weeks" is September 17th, the date of SPI's next board meeting.)


So, considering this, does anyone have objections to:

(1) The "Tux Paint," "Tux, of Math Command," and "Tux Typing II" projects,
    under the umbrella organization name of "Tux4Kids", becoming a member
    project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI).

(2) Me (Bill Kendrick, lead dev. of Tux Paint, and intial dev. of TuxMath)
    being one of (or the sole) 'authoritative decisionmaker' for Tux4Kids'
    SPI membership?

    (Do heads of other projects -- e.g., David Bruce & Tim Holy --
    also wish to be decisionmakers?  Anyone else?)

    (A major aspect of this, BTW is that this person(s) "is authorized
    to act for your project (most commonly to approve disbursements but
    not restricted to this purpose).")

By the end of this week, I'll 'fill in the blanks' in the sample
resolution (found at the bottom of the "Joining SPI (projects)" page)
and send it to Bdale.

Please let me know if you'd like to be Cc'd and kept in the loop.


-bill!

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[Caroline Ford-2]

2008/9/3 Bill Kendrick <nbs@...>:

> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 05:44:07PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> <snip>
>> Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is a non-profit that's an
>> umbrella organization for a number of mentoring organizations in this
>> year's GSOC program (and has been in the past).
> <snip>
>
> So far, response from everyone who's bothered responding has been positive,
> and most people seem to think I'd be a good Point-of-Contact
> between Tux4Kids and SPI.  I'd be honored to accept.
>
> Some good reading on the subject:
>
>  http://www.spi-inc.org/secretary/joining-spi-projects.html
> which points to:
>  http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/2004-08-10-iwj.1
>
> As a summary, SPI provides two main services to projects:
> * Property
>  This includes Money (donations and holding), Intellectual Property
>  (copyrights) and Other (for example, hardware)
> * Legal advice and Representation
>
> I spoke briefly with Bdale Garbee, president of Software in the Public
> Interest.  (Also happens to be Linux CTO at Hewlett-Packard :^) )
>
> He said:
>
>  what matters to SPI is that there is someone (individual, can be an
>  assigned role that changes like the elected Debian Project Leader) we
>  can treat as authoritatively speaking for the project in matters
>  involving distribution of the project's assets, etc
>
>  we don't really care how the project is structured internally
>
>  as long as the project's objectives match our charter, and everyone
>  understands that we must always act in accordance with applicable
>  laws, the rules regarding contributions to 501(c)3 organizations, etc,
>  then we're nearly there
>
>  a number of our associated projects don't have large or complex
>  structures, part of the reason SPI exists is to help projects avoid
>  needing to (re-)build legal existence overhead when it's just a
>  distraction from getting the real work done
>
> I said: "only question now is:  what's next?", to which he responded:
>
>  take the text of the sample resolution, fill in all
>  the blanks, and send me the resulting draft.  I'll look it over, tweak
>  if necessary, and put it up where contributing members can comment
>  prior to our next board meeting
>
>  given that we're more than two weeks out, I think we
>  could safely put it on the agenda for the Sept meeting
>
>  you should also suggest that all the relevant
>  participants in tux4kids consider becoming SPI contributing members if
>  they aren't already, so that they will have a voice (vote) in SPI
>  activities.  And pass the draft resolution by them in case they have
>  any concerns or suggestions.
>
>  finally, you should plan to attend the SPI board
>  meeting (here) where the resolution is reviewed and voted on, so that
>  any final questions can get answered, and the invitation can be
>  immediately accepted if the vote passes
>
> (Where "here" is the public #spi IRC channel on irc.oftc.net, and
> "two weeks" is September 17th, the date of SPI's next board meeting.)
>
>
> So, considering this, does anyone have objections to:
>
> (1) The "Tux Paint," "Tux, of Math Command," and "Tux Typing II" projects,
>    under the umbrella organization name of "Tux4Kids", becoming a member
>    project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI).
>
> (2) Me (Bill Kendrick, lead dev. of Tux Paint, and intial dev. of TuxMath)
>    being one of (or the sole) 'authoritative decisionmaker' for Tux4Kids'
>    SPI membership?

I have no objections!

>
> Please let me know if you'd like to be Cc'd and kept in the loop.

Yes please.

Caroline

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[Ben Armstrong]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 23:04:24 -0700
Bill Kendrick <nbs@...> wrote:

> So, considering this, does anyone have objections to:
>
> (1) The "Tux Paint," "Tux, of Math Command," and "Tux Typing II" projects,
>     under the umbrella organization name of "Tux4Kids", becoming a member
>     project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI).
>
> (2) Me (Bill Kendrick, lead dev. of Tux Paint, and intial dev. of TuxMath)
>     being one of (or the sole) 'authoritative decisionmaker' for Tux4Kids'
>     SPI membership?
>
>     (Do heads of other projects -- e.g., David Bruce & Tim Holy --
>     also wish to be decisionmakers?  Anyone else?)
>
>     (A major aspect of this, BTW is that this person(s) "is authorized
>     to act for your project (most commonly to approve disbursements but
>     not restricted to this purpose).")

Looks good to me!

> By the end of this week, I'll 'fill in the blanks' in the sample
> resolution (found at the bottom of the "Joining SPI (projects)" page)
> and send it to Bdale.
>
> Please let me know if you'd like to be Cc'd and kept in the loop.

Yes, please.

Ben

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[Begasus]

On wo, 2008-09-03 at 06:11 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 23:04:24 -0700
> Bill Kendrick <nbs@...> wrote:
> > So, considering this, does anyone have objections to:
> >
> > (1) The "Tux Paint," "Tux, of Math Command," and "Tux Typing II" projects,
> >     under the umbrella organization name of "Tux4Kids", becoming a member
> >     project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI).
> >
> > (2) Me (Bill Kendrick, lead dev. of Tux Paint, and intial dev. of TuxMath)
> >     being one of (or the sole) 'authoritative decisionmaker' for Tux4Kids'
> >     SPI membership?
> >
> >     (Do heads of other projects -- e.g., David Bruce & Tim Holy --
> >     also wish to be decisionmakers?  Anyone else?)
> >
> >     (A major aspect of this, BTW is that this person(s) "is authorized
> >     to act for your project (most commonly to approve disbursements but
> >     not restricted to this purpose).")
>
> Looks good to me!

No objections either ;)
>
> > By the end of this week, I'll 'fill in the blanks' in the sample
> > resolution (found at the bottom of the "Joining SPI (projects)" page)
> > and send it to Bdale.
> >
> > Please let me know if you'd like to be Cc'd and kept in the loop.
>
> Yes, please.

Count me in ;)

Luc

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[Steve Karg]

Hi Bill,

> So, considering this, does anyone have objections to:
>
> (1) The "Tux Paint," "Tux, of Math Command," and "Tux Typing II" projects,
>    under the umbrella organization name of "Tux4Kids", becoming a member
>    project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI).
>
> (2) Me (Bill Kendrick, lead dev. of Tux Paint, and intial dev. of TuxMath)
>    being one of (or the sole) 'authoritative decisionmaker' for Tux4Kids'
>    SPI membership?

I have no objections.

Best Regards,

Steve
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On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 11:04:24PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> By the end of this week, I'll 'fill in the blanks' in the sample
> resolution (found at the bottom of the "Joining SPI (projects)" page)
> and send it to Bdale.
>
> Please let me know if you'd like to be Cc'd and kept in the loop.

I've sent the draft resolution to Bdale for review, Cc'ing
Josh Berkus (SPI treasurer & the SPI<->GSOC guy), as well as the folks
here who said they wished to be Cc'd.

I've listed myself and David Bruce as the 'decisionmakers.'

As a reminder, the next SPI board meeting will be Sept. 17th.

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