On 11/02/2015 16:02, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > * non profit entities working with an established trademark license of > the Document Foundation whose sole purposes is to promote and > represent LibreOffice or its users.
IMHO, we should try to establish this kind of non profit entities in every geography. LibreItalia is growing in size, visibility, reputation and importance almost on a daily basis. In addition, it is recognized by government bodies, and has been able to build bridges even with one of the organizations who have migrated to AOO (to be clear, this is not due to a change of attitude of the people who have convinced the organization to migrate to AOO because LibreOffice was "crap", but because the person who has managed the project within the organization has realized that he has been cheated, and LibreOffice is better than AOO). Sonia and myself have been invited to speak at their event on March 27, in Bologna. > I'm afraid I don't have a breakdown of the first two types of cases, > but I can tell the last one is rare. We have LibreItalia, and to a > lesser extent, the NGO in Brazil who does not usually go by the name > "LibreOffice Brazil" or anything close. LibreItalia is seen at the Italian house of LibreOffice. > - more interestingly, and with my Membership Commitee hat on, should > we integrate contributions made by actual local chapters of TDF (and > not general purpose free software advocacy groups) inside TDF > membership criteria? IMHO, yes, because they are growing the community at local level and as such are strengthening the entire project. > - please share your thoughts here about the topic: did you find > problematic to set up a local entity? etc. Once we decided to draft the statutes based on TDF statutes, with the necessary tweaks based on the Italian law for non profit organizations, the setup was easy but extremely time consuming (we presented the statutes in April and we got the approval in August). > - what should be the most important criteria for local entities to > become "TDF chapters"? Commitment to LibreOffice, commitment to LibreOffice, commitment to LibreOffice. -- Italo Vignoli - The Document Foundation mob IT +39.348.5653829 - mob EU +39.392.7481795 email [email protected] - skype italovignoli email / hangout [email protected] GPG Key ID - 0xAAB8D5C0 DB75 1534 3FD0 EA5F 56B5 FDA6 DE82 934C AAB8 D5C0 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/projects/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
