[ogg-dev] Re: [theora-dev] Re: [Advocacy] Re: [Vorbis-dev] Proposal: An extension to rules all others

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

On 4/30/07, Ralph Giles <giles at xiph.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:34:25AM +0100, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:
>
> > Xiph Board?  What is this Xiph Board?  I've never heard of it.
>
> I'm not sure what Silvia meant. The Xiph.org Foundation legal entity,
> which holds the copyright, owns the servers and so on, is a US
> non-profit corporation and as such has a governing board. The bylaws
> are designed to make the board very difficult to subvert, and a last
> recourse for conflict resolution. Ootherwise the members generally do
> not involve themselves in the regular business of the org, which is run
> by volunteers like you and me. Monty is the only board member who is
> actively involved at this point.
>
> Like most small open source projects, we've tended to make decisions
> based on rough consensus among the core developers, with moral authority
> flowing from clueful contribution.
>
> Silvia is a fan of more democratic processes, I think, so perhaps that
> will change in the future. :)

Nah, I just misunderstood the function of the board. :)

S.