[oe] progress on OE organization issues

[GNUtoo]

On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 22:18 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 08:54 -0400, Philip Balister wrote:
> > Phil Blundell wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 00:37 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> > >> My view on that is: The ideal situation would be that everyone interested in 
> > >> OE -- no matter on which level, technically, supportive, or administrative, 
> > >> becomes a member of the e.V.  This is relatively straightforward and does not 
> > >> require any financial commitments per se as our status include that a member 
> > >> can chose its own membership fee.
> > > 
> > > Sounds good to me.  What exactly needs to be done in order to make this
> > > happen?
> > 
> > Translate the eV papers into English. Someone did feed it through an 
> > internet translator, but I can't find the output on the web. We should 
> > go ahead and put them on the wiki.
> 
> What's the current status with this?  I guess as a first step we should
> at least get the German articles online, if that hasn't already been
> done.  That would make it easier to solicit volunteers for producing an
> English translation.
> 
> p.
There is an interresting part on Legal status here:
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.html#x1-190003

by the way why don't we join an umbrella organization?

Denis.