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On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 07:28 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> Out of curiosity, what has the foundation/the board of trustees |
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> actually achieved so far? Topics that come to mind |
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> - bylaws |
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We sorta approved these, but any further traction is on hold at this |
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time. |
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> - copyright |
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I know that we had discussed quite a bit of this with our lawyers, but |
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again, it is on hold. |
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> - incorporation status/residence |
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We didn't get anywhere near as far along as I had hoped that we would. |
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We did not reincorporate in Delaware. |
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> - financial reports |
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I know we sent out something to this list, but we haven't done any kind |
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of actual report. |
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> - bank account |
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We still have Paypal/Netbank. Moving to a different bank would require |
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us complete the move to another state first. |
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> - budgets |
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No budgets have ever been proposed. Lots of people have talked about |
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budgets, myself included, but no work has been done towards them. |
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Nobody has even come up with a proposal for any budgets. |
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> - store |
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The store hasn't had much going on with it. I'm actually going to make |
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a proposal some time soon regarding the store in an attempt to improve |
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it. Like many things, changes to the store really require us to be in |
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much better shape as a Foundation than we currently are. |
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So what have we done? |
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Well, we came up with and all agreed to new Articles of Incorporation |
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for use in relocation to Delaware. We agreed on new Bylaws, which would |
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be required after reincorporation. The same Bylaws could be applied to |
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the current Foundation, but that wasn't really the scope we were going |
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for when we were discussing them. We have also been in negotiations |
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with the Software Freedom Conservancy, as we have been discussing |
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joining that group and disbanding the Foundation. I know this isn't |
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likely to be popular with some people, but it really boils down to our |
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abilities. We are developers, we're not tax specialists nor lawyers. |
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> Marius |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |