[$] Interview: the FreeCAD Project Association

Post Syndicated from original https://lwn.net/Articles/924953/

The sustainability of free software continues to be mostly uncharted
waters. No team is the same as any other, so copying, say, the Blender Foundation’s
approach to governance will, most likely, not work for other projects. But
there is value in understanding how various non-commercial organizations
operate in order to make informed decisions for the governance of new ones.
In late 2021, the FreeCAD team
launched the FreeCAD Project
Association
(FPA) to handle the various assets that belong to this free
3D CAD project. In this interview, Yorik van Havre, a longtime FreeCAD
developer — and current president of the Association — guides us through
the process of starting and managing the FPA.