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On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 8:16 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 9:04 AM Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote: |
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>> It would be possible for Trustees (5) to be a subset of Council (7). |
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>> Council ask for something, then effectively vote themselves the funding. |
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> How is that different from the status quo, where the Trustees can ask |
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> for something, and then effectively vote themselves the funding? |
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> IMO Trustees being identical to Council would be the ideal state, |
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> because it would eliminate half of the conflicts we've seen in the |
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> last year. Having two different bodies with different agendas both |
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> trying to push the community in different directions seems |
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> self-destructive. |
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Personally, I see it as two different bodies with two different |
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electorates voting people into roles that require disparate |
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respnsibilities. |
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AFAIK, the trustees handle all the legal bullshit that the foundation |
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was created to insulate the developers from, at least if my dev quiz |
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is to be believed, meanwhile the developers, through the council, |
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worry about the technical and project issues. |
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Given that the foundation itself is cited as existing to deal with the |
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non technical/codemonkey issues, like trademarks, and legal stuff, and |
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property, and funding, I think this dichotomy is actually not |
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inappropriate at all. |
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Their responsibilities are disparate, so I think it's completely |
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reasonable for them to be handled by two separate groups. |
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Let the developers do their development with the council uniting them, |
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and let them sit under the anti-legalese umbrella provided by the |
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foundation that the trustees look after. |
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To me, it's not about them fighting with each other, its about them |
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having diverse responsibilities. |
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That said, I certainly would advocate that the council and trustees |
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maintain communication with each other so that they can stay on the |
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same page since they have different roles but are supporting the same |
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ends. They should stay in communication, and ot that end I'm pleased |
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by the joint meetings. |
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A leg, by analogy, has bones, muscles, skin. The bone is made of |
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minerals, and the muscles are made of protein, but both of them work |
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together as a team for the common purpose of helping the human stand |
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up. |
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> Rich |
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