Gentoo Archives: gentoo-nfp

From: Jochen Maes <sejo@g.o>
To: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Foundation membership, take 2
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:34:40
Message-Id: 425CD942.2050302@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Foundation membership, take 2 by Sven Vermeulen
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4 Sven Vermeulen wrote:
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6 > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:20:15AM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote:
7 >
8 >> (Note: I'm cross-posting to -core, but I'd appreciate it if
9 >> responses could be on -nfp, since that way we have a public
10 >> record.)
11 >
12 >
13 > Yes, it's nice to see how many people actually read this request
14 > *shrug*
15 >
16 >> Here's a revised version of Stuart's suggestion for a Foundation
17 >> membership policy:
18 >>
19 >> * All Gentoo devs are automatically Foundation members * Each
20 >> Foundation member must explicitly request his/her right to vote
21 >> on an annual basis.
22 >
23 >
24 > I still don't like the idea that each Gentoo dev is a Foundation
25 > member. The 1 year period allows developers to integrate in the
26 > project, find out how the various projects interact, where the
27 > bottlenecks are, etc.
28 >
29 > People who are just brought on board for, lets say, managing
30 > sys-foo/bar, might not know how much efforts porting takes, or how
31 > documentation works. There is no way to be sure they know this
32 > after a year, but then they have had all the opportunities to get
33 > to know them (which isn't entirely possible if you're no Gentoo
34 > developer).
35 >
36 > I do agree on the explicit request to vote (voting members).
37 >
38 > Wkr, Sven Vermeulen
39 >
40 I second this, I also would like to see every candidate to create a
41 nice page explaining why they think they should be a good trustee.
42 It's good to know what people stand for.
43
44 greetings,
45
46 Jochen
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49 "Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends"
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51 Jochen Maes
52 Gentoo Linux
53 http://dev.gentoo.org/~sejo/
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Re: [gentoo-nfp] Foundation membership, take 2 Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>