Times Are Changing, So Are We. PostNuke is transforming. Four years ago, in July 2001, PostNuke grew out of the frustration of four guys (John Cox, Sean Finkle, Harry Zink and Greg Allan) not being able to contribute or give something back to an Open Source CMS project, PHP-Nuke.
Over the years the project has been shaped by the important events throughout our history and the results are we have a strong dynamic project and community. These achievements cannot go without recognizing our current success stands on the shoulders of those who've contributed to the project in the past. And since the project existed simply as a collaboration of individuals, in order to protect the long term interests of the project, we needed to establish the project legally. By creating a legal structure & identity in the form of a non-profit foundation we ensure the project lives on beyond the individuals contributing and provides the project with stability, credibility and a professional image.
The PostNuke Software Foundation was established last year in June 2004 with the details being finalized recently. The founding members of the organization are: Harry Zink of Fizbin LLC, Mark West Lead Developer, German PostNuke Foundation, currently represented by Andreas Krapohl, Drak of HostNuke, and Vanessa Haakenson. (see short bios below)
The functions of the founding members serve a managerial and strategic function, ensuring the project goals and directions remain constant and true to the open source philosophy, quality coding, collaboration, and open standards. It's important to stress you are not required to be member of the foundation (there is currently no membership option) to contribute to the project.
As a result of our combined experiences over the last four years the founding members agree the best way to move the project forward is to have a PN Steering Committee* (see details below) consisting of members of the various teams chosen from well-known, long term active community members and developers.
The job of the steering committee will be to handle the day-to-day running of the project and will be chosen by the founding members. The announcement of the appointments will be made within the next 10 days.
In closing, in the coming days look for announcement regarding the PN Steering Committee and over the coming weeks look for announcements about a new look/feel for main PN site, a formal site for the foundation (read current bylaws here: http://www.postnuke.com/foundation/) and an updated project road map.
Viva la PN!
Sincerely,
Board of Directors
PostNuke Software Foundation, Inc
Harry Zink through Fizbin, LLC
Mark West, Lead Developer
German Postnuke Foundation, currently represented by Andreas Krapohl
Drak through HostNuke
Vanessa Haakenson
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PNSF Facts & Information
PostNuke Software Foundation
Non-profit registered in the State of Delaware
PostNuke Steering Committee
Advisory body made up of members of the various teams and responsibilities include:
Community management & resourcing
Determine software project priorities
PostNuke software development and direction
Provide policy recommendations
Approval of development plans
Goals/Objectives:
The Corporation is a non-profit organization organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. No part of the earnings of the Corporation shall ever inure to the benefit of or be distributed to any member or individual having a personal or private interest in the activities of the Corporation.
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors serve a managerial and strategic function, ensuring PostNuke remain constant and true to the open source philosophy, quality coding, collaboration, and open standards. The following people/organizations serve as initial members of the corporation:
Fizbin, LLC (Harry Zink)
One of the original founders of the project, Harry has been a constant, continued project supporter. He works as a systems administrator for a large entertainment corporation and lives in Los Angeles, California. He has a Ph.D. in psychology and loves to travel to Thailand for the food.
Vanessa Haakenson
Is co-founder of Distance-Educator.com and has been an active participant in PostNuke since July 2001 consulting on usability issues and acting as a PN evangelist to the educational community. In November of 2001 she started the site Designs4Nuke.com to consolidate and share all the information and resources regarding theme design for PostNuke. With a Master's Degree in Educational Technology she brings a unique perspective to the project having developed web based products focusing on usability, standards, documentation, and community. Over the years she has presented at conferences about PostNuke and has authored articles on effective information design. She recently moved with her son from San Diego, California to Woodland Park, a small mountain town in Colorado.
HostNuke Ltd. (Drak)
Drak has been with the project since July 2001 and was the first to create hosting accounts with PostNuke preinstalled as a way of making it easy for new users to get started. He has 19 years experience in the computer industry and devotes most of his time working for a humanitarian charity. He donates equipment and colocation to the project and is responsive for all server level security and administration.
Mark West, Lead Developer
Works as the computing officer for Systems and Operations for Kingston University and lives in South West London, UK. He specializes in directory enabled enterprise computing, he's taught programming; techniques, data structures and algorithms to first year undergrads at Kingston University and adheres to a strict style of programming - heavy on layout, consistency and style. Believing the benefits of this strict, consistent and academic approach to coding is a stronger, more stable and bug free end product. He has been using PostNuke from the.70x. series and is the lead developer.
German PostNuke Foundation (Represented by Andreas Krapohl)
Andreas Krapohl [aka larsneo] is President of the German PostNuke e.V. foundation and is the head of IT for a local newspaper in southern Germany. Has been with PostNuke since almost the beginning - at first with some translation stuff, then as module author (phpBB_14) and since early 2002 as a core developer. Main focus is security, usability and accessibility. He believes a solution should be simple and elegant.
Current Jobs in PostNuke Structure
Development & Quality Assurance
Communications & News Moderation
Forum Moderation & Support
documentation
Language Project
Marketing
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Posted: Aug 17, 2005 - 11:28 PM
I was at the pnMeeting in Stuttgart, when Drak showed us the slides about the foundation. I think it's a great step forward to get the community a "little bit" more involved than it was in the last years.
With the new steering comitee we have the work splitted among 5 people additional to the board of directors. I'm sure this will lead to shorter response time for requests and "lower the barrier" for new people to get involved. -
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Posted: Aug 18, 2005 - 01:03 AM
Great idea and step forward !
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Posted: Aug 18, 2005 - 01:14 AM
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One question - what you mean by "current job" ? do you have something like position description ?
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Current Jobs in PostNuke Structure
Development & Quality Assurance
Communications & News Moderation
Forum Moderation & Support
documentation
Language Project
Marketing
is just a brief summary of the positions within the postnuke structure, see also *this FAQ entry*
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Posted: Aug 18, 2005 - 01:24 AM
One more question – what are the benefits coming from be a foundation instead of what was before?. Maybe it will be easier to get projects sponsor or something like that ? ( I don’t know the legal consequences) -
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Posted: Aug 18, 2005 - 01:37 AM
It's better to have a foundation because you can present the project as one entity. Sponsoring is much easier, because you have a legal institution to give your money to instead of a projectmember that may or maybe not "that trustworthy".
Another thing is the project itself is more trustworthy because it doesn't depend on one person. If the project has someone who does all the banking/money stuff and he dies then it may be gone, because the bank accounts are owned by him and not by the project. this won't happen when you have a foundation like this.
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Posted: Aug 18, 2005 - 02:15 AM
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One more question – what are the benefits coming from be a foundation instead of what was before?. Maybe it will be easier to get projects sponsor or something like that ? ( I don’t know the legal consequences)
Having the foundation does make it easier to obtain revenue (e.g. the google ads at postnuke.com). The revenue goes to the foundation rather than any one individual. This revenue can then be put back into the project in a variety of ways.
But it's not just about creating revenue streams - there are many other aspects. The foundation provides a sense of legitimacy & stability to the project.
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Posted: Aug 18, 2005 - 06:00 AM
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But it's not just about creating revenue streams - there are many other aspects. The foundation provides a sense of legitimacy & stability to the project.
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Mark - I asking about that others benefits. -
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Posted: Aug 18, 2005 - 06:18 AM
I'm sure that many benefits will only become apparant after time but amongst the benefits I see now are....
A legal entity that can act on behalf of the project in any issues for example a GPL violation.
The foundation provides a sense of stability to the project. The sense that the project is here to stay and won't disppear tomorrow. That the people involved in the foundation and its steering comittee are fully comitted to the project.
The steering comittee itself gives a more structured way of looking after the project. i.e. the site is not run by an invidiual, the development direction is not decided by one individual etc.
As I say i'm sure that more and more benefits will become apparent over time but this is just a few that occur to me as I type this post.
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Posted: Aug 18, 2005 - 09:58 AM
Sounds great. Fingers crossed it achieves what you set out to achieve, and everyone benefits from the results of that.
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Posted: Aug 19, 2005 - 12:42 AM
the donator could discount part of its donation from his/her/it yearly state tax contributions, GPL workers need more recognizing and moneyBTW, this thing could help in that..
If we want to go at a university and teach students pnAPI for its exam-projects, we could persuade easier the teacher-rector-..
i guess if you plan a good project like this, you could say -i'm colaborating in a CMS Software Foundation, we have a project to..
instead of -hello, i have mates who do PN, can i show you something? :) - Just formalities in the end, but you know how tight some institutions are :)
as above,
ideas come and come more as you think about, .. come on! think about! there could be troubles with this baby, but we'll sort them out like we normally do with others , think it's a non 1.0 release ;)
thanks pndevs for this move, let's enjoy it
others have crashed when doing a foundation (see miro with mambo) because didn't think about GPL in their roadmap, but this one is being much much proper formed, and for..
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A legal entity that can act on behalf of the project in any issues for example a GPL violation.
We are sure about it, we love GPL, and it is nice to remark specially in these days
so long and good life to the foundation!
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Posted: Aug 19, 2005 - 01:15 AM
I don't think we want to get into a discussion about other projects and thier software foundations. The various merits of these are best discussed within the framework of thier own communities not other people looking in from the outside so let's keep this converstation about PostNuke and it's foundation.
To be honest in some respects the GPL didn't come into the converstion when looking at the foundation simply because the GPL is one of the corner stones of the PN project. The foundation acts to ensure that these corner stones are preserved and progressed.
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Posted: Aug 19, 2005 - 09:10 AM
i just 'mentioned' it cos it's a hot related matter now,, if i'm not wrong that one was the first announced foundation and there's a danger people could associate foundation=monopolism, there's no point in discussing here about it because the founders team in here have much much diferent diferent/trustworthy aims showed.
i'm too pasionate about the GPL and i overfelt this neighboors impactant issue :(
nice to consider GPL the way you remarked, we want 'even' more :)
i'm like many, excited about the new developments and -can't :) - wait for knowing more about the further steps forward you announced
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Posted: Aug 20, 2005 - 02:40 AM
PostNuke Software Foundation
its good thing in general
but i encurage to read more about the mambo and its foundation
and open source and greed and of course power strugle
it would be very disapointing to me that me beloved postnuke died
and by the way when we will get stabile version?
and how many developers we now have?
i mean active contributors?
it's good that on board we have Mark West
p.s. sorry if i insulted someon
i am just curious
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Posted: Aug 20, 2005 - 02:52 AM
IMO, the PNSF and the mambo situation are not even related. The dynamics involved are completely different. read the announcements of each and see how different they are. I don't think we have anything to worry about - all developers of PN are directly involved with the PNSF.
.750 *is* a stable version. feel free to download and use it.
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