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[Johan Hake <johan.hake@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Software Freedom Conservancy 

  <http://sfconservancy.org>

might be an alternative. It seems like an organisation that take care of at 
least some of the things you mention. 

  <http://sfconservancy.org/overview>

Several opens source projects use its service. The most noteable:

  Samba, Mercurial, SWIG, Boost, BusyBox, Wine

Johan

On Sunday May 16 2010 13:46:01 Anders Logg wrote:
> At FEniCS'10, we discussed the possibility of setting up a FEniCS
> Foundation. The purpose would be to have a more formal organization
> that would be responsible of the following items:
> 
>   1. Owning the domain name(s)
> 
>   2. Having some funds
> 
>   3. Distribute the funds (workshops, domain names etc)
> 
> The other option would be to continue with our current ad hoc
> organization which has worked fine so far.
> 
> If we decide to set up a foundation, I can arrange the paperwork. It
> doesn't look so complicated. I'll get back with more information if we
> decide this is a good idea.
> 
> So I'd like to ask everyone to state their opinion. Is this a good
> idea? Or not.
> 
> --
> Anders