[Typo3-dev] braindump: TYPO3 foundation

[Thomas Murphy]

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Hello everyone,

as much as I appreciate what the whole community has made of this cms
and I see a lot of you Typo3-VIP's in favour of this foundation idea, I
still have serious concerns especially about local foundations:

- - "Giving more power to local foundation leaders"
You know what happens if you give power to someone, don't you? Those
people start dancing around like crazy chicken singing "mine mine mine".
IMO Typo3 and Open Source in general shouldn't be about politics, and
that's exactly what you gonna get.

- - "Local foundations"
Today, we have anarchy, everyone is able to found a Typo3-UG. If someone
dislikes the people in charge of his local TUG - he can just start a new
one. (Which is more or less equal, because these local groups have no
official rights or votes or ....)
With a foundation, there would be an official local institution (you
don't want to have 3 Typo3-Yourcity foundations, do you?), so that would
be a lot difficult, if you really dislike the way, things are handled by
your local foundation. People would just not care about taking part in
such a thing, and perhaps turn even away from Typo.

- - "Why would someone want to be leader of the local Typo3-foundation?"
a) He cares about this system and provides help to everyone interested
... but unfortunately and more likely:
b) He runs an own IT-Business and wants to get personal benefits from
being some kind of "local authority"
Typo3-foundations could be misused as personal money-making machines, by
grabbing all those company-requests and sending the students home with
some "Read more tutorials. Punk."

- - "Fund raising"
On the other hand, yes it would speed up fund-raising. But if there is
no totally transparent way of handling donations and the way they are
used (online votes) - this could lead to a situation where a foundation
leader always directs the money to his closest friends, for writing a
"nothing"-extension.

- - "Closed topics for companies on conferences"
What's that supposed to be good for? Wouldn't that totally jeopardize
the open-source idea - IMO this would be just a step away of
dual-licensing, something I'm really frustrated about.

I think a good Typehead can do exactly what you want.
I would rather live under a friendly dictator in anarchy than under a
lousy, corrupted democracy. Never change a running system.

bye,
Thomas

dan frost wrote:
| The idea of a TYPO3 foundation has been mentioned many times in the past
| but recent activity suggests that we really want it - and soon.
|
| But, Kasper has to be the decision maker for this so I suggest we
| braindump on the subject to get an idea of what such a foundation would
| do, how membership should work and what each of us want from it.
|
| Anyone who has ideas - please braindump into this thread.
|
| dan
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