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Governance: Document and resource archive

This page hosts drafts and previous versions of Evergreen governance documents. The current authoritative documents can be found on the Governance Committee page.

Software Freedom Conservancy application

Our application to join the Software Freedom Conservancy has been provisionally accepted; we are now working on the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement to set up the formal relationship of the Evergreen project as a member of the Conservancy.

Who shall sign?

The Software Freedom Conservancy requested a finalized list of people who will sign the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement. The Conservancy indicated that they prefer people to sign as individuals, but for those people who believe they must sign on behalf of an organization, the Conservancy would like the organization identified and the rationale for signing on behalf of an organization rather than as an individual.

Rules of Governance

As of March 3, 2011, the Rules of Governance are being maintained in AsciiDoc format in the Evergreen Community Contributions repository so that the evolution of the document(s) can be tracked. Instructions for generating PDF and HTML versions can be found in the README file in the same directory.

Previous drafts include:

Background resources

Non-profit structures

Examples of other free/open-source foundations

Software Freedom Conservancy member project governance models

  "... all spending by the SFC on Wine's behalf for the last few years
  has been related to Wineconf.  That has either been to pay for
  conference expenses directly (as in Reading, 2 years ago), or to help
  defray travel costs for Wine contributors to come to Wineconf (as
  happened this year)"

Other free software project governance models