[Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/website: add page for the Buildroot Association
Arnout Vandecappelle
arnout at mind.be
Thu Feb 7 23:19:08 UTC 2019
On 07/02/2019 23:09, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> For about two years, a legal entity called "Buildroot Association" was
> created in France to support the Buildroot project. Until fall 2018,
> this legal entity has not been used. In fall 2018, we started using it
> in order to receive donations from companies in order to organize the
> Buildroot Developers Meeting that took place before the Embedded Linux
> Conference Europe 2018 in Edinburgh.
>
> This commit creates a new page on our web site that documents the
> existence of this Buildroot Association, and details how to become a
> member. Both individuals and companies can become members.
>
> It is worth stating that the Buildroot Association does not control
> the Buildroot project: it remains a fully open-source and
> community-driven project. The Buildroot Association only serves as a
> legal entity to handle donations and money needed to organize the
> Buildroot Developers Meeting, and pay for a few expenses related to
> the project (such as domain names).
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
> ---
> docs/website/foundation.html | 122 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> docs/website/header.html | 2 +
> 2 files changed, 124 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 docs/website/foundation.html
>
> diff --git a/docs/website/foundation.html b/docs/website/foundation.html
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..c25eb42f96
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/docs/website/foundation.html
^^^^^^^^^^association + in other places
> @@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
> +<!--#include file="header.html" -->
> +
> +<div class="container">
> + <div class="row nh"><!-- current sponsor row -->
> + <div class="col-lg-10 col-lg-offset-1 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12">
> + <div class="panel panel-primary">
> + <div class="panel-heading">Foundation</div>
> + <div class="panel-body">
> +
> + <p>The Buildroot open-source project is supported by a
> + non-profit organization called the <strong>Buildroot
> + Association</strong>. The goal of this non-profit
> + organization is <strong>to engage actions to promote, help
> + develop and democratise the Buildroot project</strong>.</p>
> +
> + <p>This non-profit organization is registered as a legal
> + entity in France, more precisely as an <em>association loi
> + 1901</em>.</p>
> +
> + <p>This organization can receive funding from members,
> + donators and sponsors. This funding is then used to:</p>
^^^^^^^^donors
> +
> + <ul>
> + <li>Pay for the meeting rooms used during the
> + bi-yearly Buildroot Developers Meeting;</li>
Don't you just love English... bi-yearly can mean "twice per year" or "every
two years"... To avoid confusion, I'd use "twice per year".
> + <li>Pay for travel expenses for contributors
> + willing to attend the Buildroot Developers
> + Meeting, and not covered by their employer to do
> + so;</li>
> + <li>Pay for renting servers used to host the
^ and services
because it is actually used mainly for the domain name now I think.
> + Buildroot infrastructure.</li>
> + </ul>
> +
> + <p>The statutes of the association are available
^^^^^^^^bylaws?
> + in <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/master/statuts_fr.txt">French</a>
> + (official) and
> + in <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/blob/master/statutes_en.txt">English</a>
> + (unofficial translation). The association was declared on
> + March 14, 2016 to the <em>Préfecture de Haute-Garonne</em>
> + (France) and is registered under the n°W313024278. See this
> + official <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/blob/master/pdf/Recepisse_CR.pdf">receipt</a>
> + from the french authorities.</p>
^F
> +
> + <p>Our accounting is fully public, including the bank
> + account summaries,
> + see <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/tree/master/accounting">accounting</a>. Numerous
> + other administrative documents related to the association
> + are available on
> + its <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/">Github
> + repository</a></p>
> + </div>
> + </div>
> +
> + <div class="panel panel-primary">
> + <div class="panel-heading">Becoming a member</div>
> + <div class="panel-body">
> +
> + <p>To become a member, an individual or a company simply has
> + to pay its yearly membership. For an individual, the minimum
Should we mention somewhere that the board can veto that?
> + membership fee per year is 10 EUR. For a company, the
> + minimum membership fee per year is 150 EUR. Individuals and
> + companies are free to give more than the minimum
> + required.</p>
> +
> + <p>The membership is valid for the current civil year, i.e
> + any membership fee paid in 2019 is valid in December 31,
^through
> + 2019.</p>
> +
> + <p>Once the membership fee is received, it will be list in
ed
> + the
> + association <a href="https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot-association/tree/master/accounting">accounting</a>
> + files, which serve as the official list of
> + members. Therefore, members accept that their name and the
> + amount of their membership fee is made public.</p>
> +
> + <p>There are two possibilities to pay the membership
> + fee:</p>
> +
> + <ul>
> +
> + <li>A direct wire-transfer to the association bank
> + account. Since the bank account is located in France, this
> + is completely free of charge for any person or company
> + located in the European Union. The IBAN number of the
> + association bank account is <code>FR53 2004 1010 1615 0958
> + 0P03 772</code></li>
^.
I've applied to master with all these changes (except the veto thing). Can
still be corrected later.
Regards,
Arnout
> +
> + <li>A Paypal payment to the association Paypal account,
> + whose address
> + is <code>buildroot-association at lists.buildroot.org</code>.</li>
> +
> + </ul>
> +
> + </div>
> + </div>
> +
> + <div class="panel panel-primary">
> + <div class="panel-heading">Sponsoring the project</div>
> + <div class="panel-body">
> +
> + <p>Companies willing to help the Buildroot project can do so
> + by making a donation to the <em>Buildroot
> + Association</em>. In exchange for these donations, companies
> + will be listed on our <a href="/sponsors.html">Sponsors</a>
> + page and will be thanked in our release announcements.</p>
> +
> + <p>As the <em>Buildroot Association</em> is a legal entity
> + registered in France, it is able to deliver a bill and/or
> + receipt.</p>
> +
> + <p>Please
> + contact <a href="mailto:buildroot-association at lists.buildroot.org">buildroot-association at lists.buildroot.org</a>
> + if you are a company interested in making a donation.</p>
> +
> + </div>
> + </div>
> +
> + </div>
> + </div>
> +</div>
> +
> +<!--#include file="footer.html" -->
> diff --git a/docs/website/header.html b/docs/website/header.html
> index a6f16e680b..ed4b62a1e5 100644
> --- a/docs/website/header.html
> +++ b/docs/website/header.html
> @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
> <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-share"></span> Contribute</a></li>
> <li><a href="/sponsors.html">
> <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-usd"></span> Sponsors</a></li>
> + <li><a href="/foundation.html">
> + <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-resize-small"></span> Foundation</a></li>
> <li><a id="menubutton" class="btn btn-success btn-shrink" href="/download.html">
> <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-cloud-download"></span>
> <span class="text-shrink" >Download</span></a></li>
>
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