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On 2008.05.25 16:47, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 08:09 -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: |
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[snip] |
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> > The Foundation must remain accountable to developers. |
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> Who are foundation members by default, entitled to vote or have their |
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> say on any foundational matters. |
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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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Just to clarify the accountability. The Foundation is accountable to |
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its members. That reflects the business world where 'members' of a |
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corporation are 'share/stock holders' At the moment, members are |
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anyone who has ever voted in a Foundation election. Developers are |
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eligible to become Foundation members after being developers for a |
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year. Those who chose not to vote are not Foundation members and the |
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Foundation is not accountable to non members. |
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There are lots of problems with this. e.g after a few years, most of |
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the votes will be held by ex developers, drobbins is still a member, he |
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has a vote and can stand for election as a trustee. He was nominated |
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too. |
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We cannot change the bit about being accountable to members but we are |
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free to define the qualifications for membership. |
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The requirements for membership now are so restrictive that we will not |
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be able to find people to stand for election as trustees, simply |
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because the set of people interested in becoming Gentoo devepers and |
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those interested in becoming trustees has a very small intersection |
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[1]. |
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There are two ways address that. |
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1. Not have our own Foundation - join one of the umbrella |
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organisations |
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2. Open up membership to Gentoo community participants who do not want |
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to become developers in sense of the word as its used today. |
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[1] if you doubt that, look at the fall off in trustees and the |
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interest in becoming trustees, even in the wake of the publicity at the |
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end of last year. |
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Regards, |
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Roy Bamford |
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(NeddySeagoon) a member of |
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gentoo-ops |
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forum-mods |
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treecleaners |
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trustees |
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