Organization
The current organization for OE is a German eV legal entity (similar to KDE: http://ev.kde.org/) and is for the purpose of managing finances, voting, and membership.
An 'eV' for 'eingetragener Verein', in the German law, translates to a voluntary organization; a group of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement to form a body (or organization) to accomplish a purpose. The organization has members.
The OpenEmbedded eV statues are located here: http://docs.openembedded.org/organization/2008-11-22_statutes-de.pdf
A bablefish translation is here -- could German speaking folks please clean this up: OpenEmbedded eV Statutes
During FOSDEM 2008 in Brussels, Belgium, a group of founding members physically gathered to get the paperwork going.
The current board of directors
- President Dr. Michael Lauer
- Vice President Philip Balister
- Vice President and Treasurer Florian Boor
- Denys Dmytriyenko
Current Members
(please keep in alphabetical order)
- Alessandro Gardich
- Anders Darander
- Andrea Adami
- Andreas Oberritter
- Andrei Gherzan
- Chris Larson
- Cliff Brake
- Daniel Willmann
- Dave Stewart
- Denys Dmytriyenko
- Dirk Hohndel
- Dirk Opfer
- Dmitry EreminSolenikov
- Eric Bénard
- Esben Haabendal
- Florian Boor
- Frans Meulenbroeks
- Graeme Gregory
- Graham Gower
- Henning Heinold
- Holger Freyther
- Jan Lübbe
- Jason Kridner
- Jeff Osier-Mixon
- John Willis
- Joshua Lock
- Ken Gilmer
- Khem Raj
- Koen Kooi
- Leon Woestenberg
- Liam Girdwood
- Marcin Juszkiewicz
- Marco Cavallini
- Mark Brown
- Mark Hatle
- Martin Jansa
- Michael Lauer
- Michael Smith
- Otavio Salvador
- Paul Eggleton
- Philip Balister
- Philip Blundell
- Phillip Zabel
- Richard Purdie
- Robert Schuster
- Roman I Khimov
- Saul Wold
- Scott Garman
- Sean Hudson
- Simon Busch
- Stefan Schmidt
- Steve Sakoman
- Tom King
- Tom Rini
- Yu Ke
- Yury Bushmelev
OE Developers
Openembedded Developers are people who have write access to the git repository. Due to the nature of OE, there are many developers, and each one tends to maintain a section of OE. A list of maintainers can be found here. See OpenEmbedded Developers for a list of current developers.
Todo
- process for adding new members
- process for voting
- responsibility of the board
- conflict resolution
Pointers for Board Members
Online Voting Policy
Faq
- Are contributions tax deductible?
- Yes they are.
- Should I become member of the OE e.V.?
- If you are contributing to OE frequently and/or you are interested in getting involved in administrative or organisational tasks it might be a good idea to join OE e.V.
- How do I become member of the OE e.V.?
- Let an existing member introduce you by sending a short introduction to the 'ev' mailinglist. If you don't know one get in touch with us on the development mailinglist or IRC first. The e.V. is open for anyone to join and its not meant to be an exclusive club of a few developers.
- Is there a membership fee?
- Yes, and no, since you are allowed to defined the amount on your own. There has been no membership fee for the project so far.