Re: SPI Elections and mailing list

Agent M wrote:
> Sorry- perhaps I misunderstand the purpose of your group, but how can
> you claim to be making decisions on "software in the public interest" on
> a private, paid-member mailing list?

Well it isn't paid-member mailing (I don't think) but you do need to be
a contributing member (ahh that is where it comes from). When they say
contributing, they are talking about people who are recognized within
the FOSS community for their contributions.

The SPI is a non-profit that is designed to help support other FOSS
projects. In our case PostgreSQL. The PostgreSQL Fundraising Group (of
which I am apart) is using the SPI non-profit status to allow for tax
deductible donations to the PostgreSQL project.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
> -M
>
> On Jul 16, 2006, at 2:10 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Hopefully by now a bunch of you have joined as Software in the Public
>> Interest
>> Contributing members per my earlier e-mail and are aware that the SPI
>> annual
>> board election has started. If you are a registered contributing member
>> with SPI, elections are at: http://members.spi-inc.org/vote/
>> and candidate statements are at:
>> http://www.spi-inc.org/secretary/votes/vote5/
>>
>> Voting closes July 28th. If you did not already register as an SPI
>> contributing member, it is too late for this year.
>>
>> Please also note that the current volume of e-mail on the spi-private
>> mailing
>> list is due entirely to the election and is not at all typical of the
>> list.
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