Posted on July 16, 2010 by Simon Phipps
You may have seen some of the news reporting of the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) meeting that was held last Monday (I am an elected member of the Board). At a meeting with an unusually large number of community observers, we discussed how to respond to the 100% radio silence the OGB has experienced from the new owners of the OpenSolaris copyright and infrastructure. I believe we reached a balanced and well-considered conclusion and remain hopeful of a good outcome.
Read about it on my ComputerWorld blog…
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Posted on June 18, 2010 by Simon Phipps
If you’re a BCS Member or Fellow you’ve received a voting pack in the mail that needs your attention. Please vote this weekend so that there’s no risk of missing the deadline. I’ve written one more time on my ComputerWorldUK blog about the issues, but the synopsis is that no matter how you vote on the six vague no-confidence motions, please make sure you vote against the Special Resolution that sets the threshold for calling another EGM so high that it’s beyond the resources of an ordinary Member.
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Posted on June 7, 2010 by Simon Phipps
I just received notice of an Emergency General Meeting at the British Computer Society – some members think the current leadership want to subvert the BCS and turn it from the professional society for Alice and Dilbert into a mass-membership organisation serving the needs of the Pointy-Haired Boss and the corporations he serves.
Read more over on my ComputerWorldUK blog.
[Also in this thread: BCS EGM, this post, BCS Leadership Targets Member Rights, BCS Rebels Finally Get A Voice]
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Posted on April 25, 2010 by Simon Phipps
There’s been a development in The Netherlands which you may have missed as it has been evolving. Sadly the XOOPS community has not prevailed in court against their former leader in the battle for control of their domain name and funds, losing soundly.
The reason? Despite a case that sounds reasonable, it turns out that they never built the governance structures into their community to ensure that, when the trust basis on which they were founded ended, the community was still run for the general good.
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