[Compcomm] The Next Step

[Jeffrey Laramie]

On Tuesday 17 April 2007 19:56, Mike Dransfield wrote:
> Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 19:31, Mike Dransfield wrote:
> >> Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
> >>> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 18:35, RYX wrote:
> >>>> Am Dienstag, den 17.04.2007, 16:35 -0400 schrieb Will Farrington:
> >>>>> The entire thing will utilize the Compiz core and will need that core
> >>>>> to be of any worth.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> No one will be Emerald unless they're using Compiz.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> etc, etc
> >>>>>
> >>>>> There are a plethora of reasons why naming the forums the Compiz
> >>>>> Forums IS THE RIGHT IDEA. Listing them all would be a waste of time.
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't want to join the name discussion again, but I really support
> >>>> the idea of keeping the name "compiz community" (or "coco" as short
> >>>> form and prefix for the packages) - if you think of it, the old name
> >>>> of the compiz-forums (before beryl) was not compiz-quinnstorm.org ...
> >>>> it was compiz.org. Nobody had a problem with it back then, so why
> >>>> bother today?
> >>>
> >>> I know this isn't the way you wanted it, but the decision was made
> >>> weeks ago that we would use a new neutral community/domain name. Having
> >>> the same discussions again and again isn't helping us move forward.
> >>
> >> Since its just a change of domain name, can we discuss who will
> >> own this domain?
> >>
> >> I am not happy about anyone except David being in control of the
> >> 'official' domain for obvious reasons.
> >
> > This is a good question. I personally don't have a problem with David
> > owning the name, or anyone else that is an active leader for that matter.
> > Other communities have created a legal structure that owns the community
> > assets, such as the Apache Software Foundation. That might be the better
> > answer in the long term.
>
> I do not think we could get such a legal agreement within a
> certain timeframe.  To me the safest way to avoid undesired
> consequences is to keep the existing domain name and
> ownership.

I would be willing to purchase and hold the domain until a formal foundation 
was created. As you say, that could take awhile.

>
> Also whilst we are on the subject, do I ever get an answer
> about who actually owns berylbox?  Is it quinn?

I don't think so, I think it's iXce.

Jeff