Hi all, Now that the governance document is in place, we need to get our legal ducks in a row by signing a fiscal sponsorship agreement with NumFOCUS. The basic idea here is that there are times when you really need some kind of corporation to represent the project -- the legal system for better or worse does not understand "a bunch of folks on a mailing list" as a legal entity capable of accepting donations, or holding funds or other assets like domain names. The obvious solution is to incorporate a company to represent the project -- but incorporating a company involves lots of super-annoying paperwork. (Like, *super* annoying.) So a standard trick is that a single non-profit corporation acts as an umbrella organization providing these services to multiple projects at once, and this is called "fiscal sponsorship". You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_sponsorship NumFOCUS's standard comprehensive FSA agreement can be seen here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11YqMX9UrgfCSgiQEUzmOFyg6Ku-vED6gMxhO6J9l... and we have the option of negotiating changes if there's anything we don't like. They also have a FAQ: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zdXp07dLvkbqBrDsw96P6mkqxnWzKJuM-1f4408I... I've read through the document and didn't see anything that bothered me, except that I'm not quite sure how to make the split between the steering council and numfocus subcommittee that we have in our governance model sync up with their language about the "leadership body", and in particular the language in section 10 about simple majority votes. So I've queried them about that already. In the mean time, I'd encourage anyone with an interest to look it over and speak up if you see anything that you think should be changed before we sign. Cheers, -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- http://vorpus.org