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I am a student of Economics at Puerto Rico +University, with a minor concentration in Cooperativism. I was truly +impressed by your efforts to fork Mandriva Linux into a full community-based +operating system, and I fully advocate it. I look forward to contributing, +although probably not in coding (I am no programmer), to the community in +various ways, including promoting it among my academic and personal +environment (I have been getting people on Linux for a good amount of time +now, and would certainly move them to Mageia ASAP). + +Regarding the future plans, I was thinking that you could consider becoming +a cooperative, since it upholds most of the values behind free software by +itself, is a community enterprise, and -being an established movement- has +an enormous amount of financial resources available to its development. It +is offered simply a means to fund the community, not a community in itself. +I will brief a bit why I think this is a good choice, but in the end it's +the community's choice what should reign, and I will support it whichever +way I can (I'm unemployed right now) regardless of their choice. + +1 - collective capital. That means the project will never be individually +owned or become a free rider inside a corporation's umbrella. More +importantly, it ensures democracy in the decisions due to joint ownership +(there is a whole standardized structure to ensure democracy and full +excercise of joint ownership inside cooperatives). +2 - transparency. Cooperatives and Linux believe in openness, which in Linux +means anybody can use, modify and redistribute particular works. A similar +thing happens in cooperatives; every associate holds the institution +accountable for the safe management of their funding, which means that all +accountings and dealings must be openly communicated to all members. +3 - opportunities - Cooperatives have created a complete ecosystem for +funding, educating, and assisting emerging institutions: there are +international alliances such as the International Cooperative +Alliance<<A HREF="http://www.ica.coop">http://www.ica.coop</A>>, +thousands of national-scale organizations, cooperative banks, and virtually +almost any kind of service possible. By choosing to create a cooperative, we +would not necessarily need to rely on our own capital, but we could finance +our initial investments through cooperatives specially dedicated for the +development of these community enterprises. (e.g. +<A HREF="http://www.cdscotland.co.uk/">http://www.cdscotland.co.uk/</A>). +4 - it is a nonprofit organization by its own structure. + +My idea is that we create a software cooperative that is dedicated to +funding Mageia Linux through various digital and cooperative means. The +cooperative would contribute to Mageia, and Mageia would contribute back to +the community. That's the general plan, but I can make more specific +statements and answers to queries if needed/wanted. + +Anyway, the most important thing is, it's a means to help the entire Linux +community grow. The definition of cooperative says much more than my +blabbering: "A co-operative is an autonomous association of persons united +voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and +aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled +enterprise." It's close enough to what you guys are doing. + +There are a gazillion resources to help you guys organize into this model: +we only need to adapt to it. + +Just my 2 cents. +-------------- next part -------------- +An HTML attachment was scrubbed... +URL: </pipermail/mageia-discuss/attachments/20100922/ceacbd48/attachment.html> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000761.html">[Mageia-discuss] Artwork - Mageia Logo contest +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000769.html">[Mageia-discuss] Added Topics on the signup Wiki -- Thanks +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#762">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#762">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#762">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#762">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |