Hey Folks,
At FOSDEM, Alexandre, Michael and I sat down and talked with Bradley Kuhn from the Software Freedom Conservancy about the Wine Project.
For those who are not aware, the SFC is the umbrella organization that holds Wine's money and it's trademarks. They also help us if we have legal questions, or just odd this and thats that are helpful to a project like ours. They (and Bradley in particular) have been quite helpful through the years.
Again for the record, spending decisions are controlled by a committee of 5, and we require a majority vote of a quorum for any spending. The quorum for any given decision cannot itself have a majority from any one company. The current committee is myself, Alexandre, Michael Stefaniuc, Marcus, and Austin English. The committee is self replacing, so if one steps down, the remaining members nominate a replacement. The SFC will recognize a 'revolution'; if the committee is clearly out of step with a majority of Wine contributors, it will force a change.
In practice, the committee mostly decides who to fund for travel to the annual Wine conference.
We have in the past agreed to provide SFC with 10% of our income to help them provide the support and staffing. We are still working on revising the formal paperwork to back this, and will likely be presenting that formal paperwork sometime this year (hopefully :-/).
Bradley proposed one new idea that I think is worth while: sponsoring Wine evangelism. That is, sponsoring travel to various shows to present talks on Wine, or to man a table to talk up Wine.
That seems like a good idea, and we will likely pursue it. If anyone is excited about the idea of being a Wine 'evangelism coordinator', drop me a line.
Now get back to work; I expect test.winehq.org to be showing green before the next release... <grin>
Cheers,
Jeremy
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Jeremy White