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From: Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] NFP + co-op
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:54:01
Message-Id: 200404130003.40163.stuart@gentoo.org
1 Okay ... am I the only developer who is getting tired with the excuses we've
2 been reading tonight in the meeting about why we *still* don't have a Gentoo
3 NFP? Especially in a channel where Gentoo devs had no voice?
4
5 Oh yeah - and I suppose I should feel offended with Daniel saying that we
6 shouldn't be adding value. We've spent many months working on taking the
7 webapps stuff to a level that *no* other distribution is on ... but somehow I
8 just can't work up the energy for that one right now. Daniel - do you want
9 us to stop work on GLEP #11, or do you support it?
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11 Whether Daniel's idea of a co-op or two to raise funds will help speed up my
12 webapps work or not I just don't know ... personally, I already have a full
13 time job which makes it impossible for a co-op to buy some of my time to
14 speed things up, but that's a different problem.
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16 Daniel, please - we've been going at this for as long as I've been a dev.
17 Please get the original, long-promised Not-For-Profit established before you
18 do *anything* else. If you need money to pay the costs, we'll get you the
19 money. But please - get it done.
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21 And please stop using xfree86 as an example of why we need the co-op. That
22 project collapsed because of the actions of its leadership.
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24 I've been asked to direct people to the new gentoo-nfp list, where all of this
25 will be discussed. Feel free to subscribe ;-)
26
27 Many thanks,
28 Stu
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30 Stuart Herbert stuart@g.o
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