<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'>Wikipedia has a page full of Open Source Benevolent Dictators For Life (BDFL) for very successful projects (Linux, Ruby, Python, Blender, Django, OpenBSD, Drupal, WordPress, Perl) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_for_Life<br>I'm not sure how many have foundational approval, or have the role documented in the applicable organisation's charter but there certainly appear to be a lot of them in the most prominent Open Source projects.<br><br><div class="zmail_extra"><div id="1"><br>---- On Thu, 05 May 2016 14:56:27 +0100 <b>Jody Garnett<jody.garnett@gmail.com></b> wrote ---- <br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #0000FF; padding-left: 6px; margin:0 0 0 5px"><div><div><div>This is not a new conversation; it has been the central work of incubation - which is proving unsuccessful in this case.</div><div><br></div>It was raised some time ago - I remember heartfelt conversations in foss4g 2013, working on governance model is part of what osgeo incubation is about (it is a bit of the advocacy we do as a foundation with the developer community).<div><br></div><div>In this case we have failed to convince the project to adopt the open governance model that we focus on as a foundation. Bruce has been very patient on this, allowing time and the positive example of other projects to speak for our approach.</div><div><br></div><div>I cannot think of any software foundation that allows benevolent dictator style - since on of the main values of a foundation is vendor neutral governance! Counter example welcome</div><div>--</div><div>Jody<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>