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Bradley and href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/#karen">Karen
have an introductory discussion on how non-profit governance interacts
with Free Software projects and what issues are important for
developers who want their project to have a non-profit existence.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:37)

• Bradley and Karen began the discussion by href="http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20110221140417338">commenting
  on this blog post by Andy Updegrove about non-profit
  governance. (01:50)
• Bradley and Karen tend to agree that non-profit settings are better
  places to foster and help Free Software development. (03:40)
• Bradley mentioned that href="http://www.frob.com/~roland/">Roland McGrath wrote GNU C
  Library (and other GNU programs) while working as an employee at the href="http://fsf.org">FSF, and many of those programs are now
  often maintained by Red Hat (or other company's) developers, under the
  auspices of the GNU project, as overseen by the FSF. (04:50)
• Corporate form and organization questions should be secondary to
  project leadership ones. (09:50)
• One of the most important things is to have an organization in a
  place where people are willing to do the work to keep the organization
  going. (20:10)
• Enthusiasm to keep the organization running is the most important
  resource for running the organization. (22:26)

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