[beyond-licensing] Principles and practices

Tue Jul 12 17:39:20 UTC 2016

I think most of agree on the importance of communication and that
transparency in key collaborative areas helps to facilitate trust and
further collaboration.

I'm curious what folks on this list have to add to this part,
"Self-organization is a sufficient cause for collaboration." In particular,
when you look at the way that several different self-organized groups
interact with each other what kinds of relationships match the various
goals that a group of stakeholders might have in common?

Deb

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Patrick Masson <masson at opensource.org>
wrote:

> All,
>
> Following up on my previous note, related to assessment of organizations
> based on maturity and causality, I wanted to share what the OSI is
> currently doing related to our Affiliate Membership program.
>
> The Affiliate program is for non-profits, government agencies and
> educational institutions. In order for us to assess if these groups are
> "unequivocally independent groups with a clear commitment to open source"
> we've developed some criteria for membership (
> https://opensource.org/AffiliateRequirements).
>
> To qualify, applicants must provide evidence that they meet these
> criteria, in a sense, that they share these principles and have practices
> that demonstrate such. For example, a principle of "transparency" could be
> derived from our requirement, "Documented approach for participation by the
> public." And the applicants, evidence of the use of mailing lists, IRC,
> GitHub shows that they are engaged in practices that provide transparency.
>
> Below is a recent exchange with an Affiliate Member applicant. I think our
> approach could serve to further inform our discussions on this list.
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
>
>
> ---------
>
> Thank you very much for submitting an Affiliate Agreement. I wanted to go
> over the Affiliate Member qualifications to make sure I have everything
> right before I submit OCA's application to the Board for review. Let me
> know if what I have is OK, or if you have other references that would be
> better to cite.
>
>    1. *Currently recognized as a (or application submitted for)
>    non-profit / not-for-profit (or equivalent) by the national government were
>    organized.*
>    OCA's non-profit status is stated on the home page, (
>    https://odoo-community.org/) and in the footer of each web page, "The
>    Odoo Community Association, or OCA, is a nonprofit organization..." The OCS
>    by-laws (https://odoo-community.org/page/Bylaws) also state, "'Odoo
>    Community Association' hereafter 'OCA' or 'Association' is a non-profit
>    association governed by the present statutes and, secondarily, by Articles
>    60 et seq. of the Swiss Civil Code. It is neutral politically, and
>    non-denominational."
>    *Can you point me to any documentation for this? For example, in the
>    U.S. the OSI would produce our IRS tax status and California Secretary of
>    State certification / filings.*
>
>    2. *Mission statement describing purpose and goals.*
>    "Establish and support an Open Source and collaborative community for
>    the development and promotion of the Odoo features and modules." -
>    https://odoo-community.org/page/About
>
>    3. *Documentation formalizing organization, e.g. by-laws.*
>    OCA by-laws available at: https://odoo-community.org/page/Bylaws
>
>    4. *Publicly available release of a product(s) or service(s).*
>    OCA supports a variety of projects:
>       - Odoo enterprise management suite (
>       https://www.odoo.com/page/download, source,
>       https://github.com/odoo/odoo)
>       - Odoo Community Association (OCA) Apps (
>       https://www.odoo.com/apps/modules?author=Odoo%20Community%20Association%20%28OCA%29
>       )
>
>       5. *Use of an OSI approved open source license (software
>    development projects only).*
>       - Odoo is distributed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE,
>       Version 3 (https://github.com/odoo/odoo/blob/9.0/LICENSE)
>       - Odoo Community Association Apps are distributed under open source
>       licenses as described at https://odoo-community.org/page/faq, " The
>       association only accepts projects that use OSI-certified licenses for their
>       software. The association also discourages a proliferation of new and
>       incompatible licenses. We recommend you to choose one of those licenses :
>       AGPLv3, LGPLv3 or GPLv3."
>
>       6. *Documented approach for participation by the public.*
>       - OCA provides a variety of opportunities for participation and
>       offers detailed assistance for on-boarding:
>       https://odoo-community.org/page/Contribute
>       - Memberships are available:
>       https://odoo-community.org/page/Membership
>
>       7. *An active community: *
>       1. Methods for current and interested individuals/organizations to
>       join and participate in your community
>    - Events (https://odoo-community.org/event), Mailing lists (
>       https://www.odoo.com/page/odoo-community), IRC
>       (irc://freenode/OCA), GitHub (https://github.com/oca), and others:
>       https://odoo-community.org/page/Contribute
>       1. Active participation from multiple contributors, i.e.
>       individuals and organizations other than founders (contributions may be
>       other than programming/technology)
>    - 163 OCA Members (https://odoo-community.org/members)
>       - 3 Sponsors (https://odoo-community.org/partners)
>       - 30 GitHub contributors (https://github.com/orgs/OCA/people)
>       - 7 Transifex administrators (https://www.transifex.com/oca/public/)
>       - and others (https://odoo-community.org/page/Contribute)
>
>       8. *References from other open source projects, ideally a current
>    OSI Affiliate Member.*
>    *Do you have any references for us?*
>
> *Criteria*
>
>    1. OSI Agreement has been signed and submitted.
>    *Received*
>    2. Cover letter including
>       1. interest in Affiliation;
>       *Outstanding*, can you please provide us with a brief explanation
>       of why OCA would like to join? We often use this as part of our press
>       release announcing our new affiliates.
>       2. proof of qualification.
>       *Underway*
>
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
>
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