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Below is the second email from internal communications amongst board |
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members back in 2008. This was a private internal email. But I do not |
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believe it contains any sensitive or private information. Since others |
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did not have access to the information, I feel its in alls best interest |
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for it to be known. |
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It contains information regarding the SFLC and SPI, for reference and |
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historic purposes only. |
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-------- Forwarded Message -------- |
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> From: William L. Thomson Jr. <wltjr@g.o> |
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> To: trustees@g.o |
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> Subject: Re: SPI/SFC was -> What does the IRS Consider a Donation ? |
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> Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:27:55 -0400 |
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> |
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> On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 23:02 +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> > |
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> > > But we are no where near ready for such things. If that's the direction |
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> > > we do want to go. Then we seriously need to look at and work toward SPI. |
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> > > |
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> > I've always favored that. I understood they could not take us at this |
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> > time and thus we went with what we had. |
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> |
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> First off to be 100% clear |
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> |
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> The SPI can take us when ever. They are self funding via collecting 5% |
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> of all donations. |
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> |
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> The SFC is underfunded. They operate on grants, and projects must be |
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> invited to join. Once funding is available. |
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> |
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> SPI is and always has been an option SFC is not. Most don't know about |
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> the SPI. Most prefer the newer SFC. For no good reason IMHO. SPI has a |
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> attorney on staff that works for the SFLC. Which the SFC is a offshoot |
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> of the SFC. Not related directly, but share same staff, etc. |
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> |
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> Wrt to either. I see it more of a way to put the unwanted stuff off to |
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> another entity, and thus potentially limit the future of Gentoo. Maybe |
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> not. I am not sure of Debian started some of it's things pre SPI or not. |
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> Like DebConf etc. Plus there are trade offs. |
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> With the SPI we have to appoint a single liaison for Gentoo to the SPI. |
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> I personally don't really like that. Also not sure about having to go |
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> through a third party to get at our donations. From time we put in a |
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> funding request to time it is honored. |
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> |
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> There was a reason Gnome left the SPI and created their own foundation. |
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> Which I much prefer that approach. Like FreeBSD. But until the mission |
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> of the foundation grows. There is little reason not to hand it over. |
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> Other than sealing fate so to speak. Leaving it will not be easy. |
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> |
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> That said while it's an open door to either SFC or SPI. I have a feeling |
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> we would need to be with them for 1-2 years. We can't flip flop, move to |
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> them, leave etc. So if we go that route. That's it IMHO. No more Gentoo |
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> Foundation. |
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> |
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> -- |
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> William L. Thomson Jr. |
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> amd64/Java/Trustees |
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> Gentoo Foundation |
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> |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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Obsidian-Studios, Inc. |
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http://www.obsidian-studios.com |
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