RFC: Adding some management structure, particularly for decisions about our donation account

[Geert Janssens]

On donderdag 9 juni 2011, Christian Stimming wrote:
> > You propose a charter and a committee. Would this also have legal
> > implications for the GnuCash project ? As far as I know a non-profit is
> > required to keep books and report income and pay taxes. If we form a
> > committee will that also imply we'll need to start keeping books and all
> > that follows ?
> 
> No, those are two different decisions.
> 
> ...
> 
Ok, thanks for clearing that up. I'm all for a charter and committee with the 
current state of GnuCash. And I had come to the same conclusion myself that if 
we would require a legal entity it would be better to join one of the non-
profits that already exist for that purpose.

> 
> Right, there isn't a project goal. I agree this is a drawback. However, I
> don't really see one single commonly agreed-upon goal in the activities
> around this project so far, except that they all work with the same
> codebase. In the community here, there are a bunch of different goals and
> the developers even seem to have diverging goals at times, though this
> doesn't seem much of a problem. On the other hand, maybe it is indeed
> possible to find a wording for a goal which represents the majority of our
> individual goals. I just didn't come up with a good solution myself so
> far, and this point should maybe discussed a bit more.
> 
Seems like a good idea to me. Perhaps a first step in that direction would be 
for the developers to describe why they participate in GnuCash, what their 
personal vision on the project is, what their itches and passions are that 
drive them to contribute,... It doesn't matter if these visions are aligned 
(yet) in my opinion, what matters is that these visions are brought out, 
talked about, considered,... Perhaps a wiki page would be best for that. I'll 
see if I can start one in the next few days.

Geert