List of questions about the Foundation from call 3

[lrettig]

I promised to record and share these on yesterday's call.

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• Do we want a Foundation in the first place?
• Who is the "we" that chose to set up a Foundation?
• Where does the Foundation stand now/where are we in the formation process?
• What's its mission statement/charter?
• What's the proposed/tentative structure?
• What things have been decided, and what questions are still open? What can the community contribute to at this stage?
• What will it be responsible for managing/what is its scope?
• How will it be funded?
• Does it have a role in organizing/managing development work?
• What will its role be in managing tech and tech standards, e.g., data structures?
• Should it have formal working groups, akin to W3C/IETF?
• Does the community have a voice in its leadership?
• Why was Singapore chosen as the jurisdiction?
• Can there be more transparency in communication about it?

[lrettig]

Did we intend to try to record answers to these questions, or are we happy just having the list of questions here for the record? :)

[whoabuddy]

I kept it on the agenda so that these questions could be used to generate content for the blog post, outlining some of the early questions we had, what we've answered already (and how), and maybe include some insights into what we still have to answer.

The only problem I see with answering the questions directly is responsibility: if I were to type up what I think, versus what you think, versus Brittany as Executive Director, versus someone else in the community - would we all be on the same page? Which are the right answers?

Also, which questions that have answers set in stone, versus things we would answer "at this time"?

[lrettig]

Thanks, I agree with this. Let me rephrase my question, then: an open issue generally indicates some work that needs to be done. What work is actually pending here, if any? :)

[joberding]

Most of these questions have been answered or are moot with the exception of a few like these:

• What will its role be in managing tech and tech standards, e.g., data structures? (primarily how)
• Should it have formal working groups, akin to W3C/IETF?
• Does the community have a voice in its leadership? (primarily how?)
  That's my .2 cents. What do you think?

[lrettig]

Thanks @joberding :) I think there are two categories of questions here. The first is, for the sake of accountability and transparency, where were certain decisions made? E.g., why was Delaware chosen as the jurisdiction? What does its initial funding look like?

The second category includes the questions you mentioned, which are more forwards-looking.

For the record I'm happy to keep this issue open, but I think, if the task here is/was "write a list of questions," that task is done and the list could be posted elsewhere. If on the other hand the task is "answer these questions", then we should discuss how to get those answers :)