[Xesam] oscaf: "change - yes we can"

[Leo Sauermann]

Hello Xesam,

inside OSCAF, Siggi Handschuh and I have been talking what we need to 
change right now to make OSCAF an organiztion that can be used by us to 
help manage the ontologies.

We all agree inside the organization that OSCAF is good to:
* legally own the domain semanticdesktop.org
* manage servers and provide servers for oscaf.org and 
semanticdesktop.org for domain management
* provide a contact point for industry to use the standards and to join 
the process

I think you all also agreed that this is a good role for OSCAF.

But I want more than that, I want that people working on ontologies 
(=you, Phreedom, Urho, ...) join OSCAF to have a say and a vote on the 
servers, the domains, and all activities.
As we work on the ontologies together, we also could manage the domains 
and server together.

There was a bad feeling about OSCAF, but now we want to change the OSCAF 
charter and website to make it the organization that can help us legally 
controlling the domains together.

Inside OSCAF, we agree that this is fine and I mentioned that "30.000 
EUR joining fee is pissing off people", Siggi Handschuh from DERI answered:
> I also think that the membership fee issue is rather a
> misunderstanding or miscommunication, than a real barrier. For
> example, I don't understand your 30.000 EUR argument, since this sum
> is mentioned *nowhere* at the OSCAF side [1]. The highest fee we
> mention on the web site is  5,000 for a profit organisation with more
> than 10 million gross revenue.
>
> Saying that, I think we are absolutely flexible to change the fee
> structure, so that we can remove this assumed mental barrier.
>
> DERI, DFKI and KDE are already members. What do you think is further
> needed to get Xesam and NOKIA on board?
So - you guys - what does it need to make OSCAF into the organization 
you would join to have a say about ontolgoies, servers, etc?

I have admin rights for OSCAF.org and I can change the website and we 
have no problem changing the charter of OSCAF to make it into the 
organization it needs to be,
feedback welcome

best
Leo
(I may answer slowly, currently in the process of moving all my shit to 
Vienna from Kaiserslautern, quite a busy thing)

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