Re: cooperation with ISO
Stuart Anderson <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 [email protected] wrote: > FSG is another possibility; I haven't studied their bylaws and processes. > I was asked to stand for nomination there a year or so ago, but due > to my other commitments, decided against before studying its organization, > processes and bylaws. The FSG was setup to fairly represent everyone in our community, including both individuals and corporations. You can get all of the details from the by-laws on the website (http://www.freestandards.org/), but in a nutshell, there are a couple of different categories which exist, and a few rules to ensure the categories remain in balance, and no one entity or group can exert undue influence. Workgroups there are accessible to everyone, and the amount of process that is required is just enough to ensure things are being done properly, without becoming so overwhelming that nothing can be accomplished. We had many people with experience in different organizations contribute the establishment of the FSG and it's proceedures, and I think we ended up with the best parts of all of them. I would like to see the X Standardization work move into the FSG. This should be a combination of the existing groups, X.Org, XFree86, and freedesktop.org. There is unfinished work in all three groups, which would be on the initial TODO list. In some cases, it will be easier to finish the work by having everyone in a single group, instead of split out into the existing, mostly disjoint, groups. Stuart Stuart R. Anderson [email protected] Network & Software Engineering http://www.netsweng.com/ 1024D/37A79149: 0791 D3B8 9A4C 2CDC A31F BD03 0A62 E534 37A7 9149