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Charter Org for LDraw.org (was: Re: LDraw Versioning (Was Re: Backwards Compatibility))
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sat, 22 Mar 2003 00:26:40 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tim Courtney wrote:
[snippity-do-dah]
> The intent of a formal org in my mind is not to bog decisions down in red
> tape. In fact, it is to free us, to establish a clearly defined process for
> decision making, and clear legitimate authority to back decisions up, which
> we do not have right now. It is to facilitate the further promotion and
> evangelism of LDraw tools to new users, to give us a springboard from which
> to spread the word about our free tools to others.
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> We need to move towards a formal nonprofit organization because:
Whoa there! There is a *huge* difference between a 'formal organization'
and a 'formal nonprofit organization'. If you were using 'nonprofit'
informally, please *don't*. 'nonprofit' typically means a huge headache
for whatever poor soul gets to work on making it happen. And is usually
only advisable when larger amounts of money are involved.
I pretty much agree with your arguments for a formal org.
Steve
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 | | Re: LDraw Versioning (Was Re: Backwards Compatibility)
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| Ok, picking up where I left off with the previous post. (...) The group charged with working on this was Steve Bliss, Jacob Sparre Andersen, Terry Keller, Larry Pieniazek, and myself. There hasn't been much activity among the four of us as of late, (...) (22 years ago, 17-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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