the lead developer "smooth"
the lead developer "smooth"
There is no "lead developer" in Monero. There are developers and some also happen to be core
members.
We are trying hard to avoid hierarchy, please respect that.
The voting aspect could be conveyed by "Parliament" or similar. "Council", even "Consortium" have been proposed. "Foundation" is often used but was rejected in yesterday's meeting.
So basically it's a foundation but not called
foundation, a foundation is a legally-registered body, sometimes with tax-deduction (when it is a charitable foundation, unlike the Gates Foundation). So MEW is not a foundation
per se. Also, foundation usually govern the orientation of a project (this is not mandatory, though, just very common). Again, this is not what MEW will do. Under the French law, it would be called a "non-registered association" and there is probably something similar in any democracy (
de facto association).
MEW is a collective. Period.