[$] Interview: the FreeCAD Project Association

The sustainability of free software continues to be mostly unchartedwaters. No team is the same as any other, so copying, say, the Blender Foundation'sapproach to governance will, most likely, not work for other projects. Butthere is value in understanding how various non-commercial organizationsoperate in order to make informed decisions for the governance of new ones.In late 2021, the FreeCAD teamlaunched the FreeCAD ProjectAssociation (FPA) to handle the various assets that belong to this free3D CAD project. In this interview, Yorik van Havre, a longtime FreeCADdeveloper - and current president of the Association - guides us throughthe process of starting and managing the FPA.