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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 00:49 +0000, Steve Long wrote: |
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>> I'd also like to nominate patrick who runs gentooexperimental.org, |
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>> hosting amongst other things pkgcore (which cross-pollinates with |
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>> portage) and notTheGWN: |
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>> http://gentooexperimental.org/not-the-gwn/not-the-gwn-current.html |
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> Yes, we definitely need people that were "retired" from the project to |
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> run our legal entity. *roll eyes* |
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Hmm ok, only he was in the eligible list and has contributed an awful lot to |
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Gentoo, but not really as a technical developer over the last year or two. |
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More as a business analyst imo, although he's stepped up to provide infra for |
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some of the more innovative work that goes on. |
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> Has anybody even taken the time to stop and think about someone's actual |
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> *legal* capabilities before nominating them? |
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I have actually, as I would hope my other nominations would show. Have you |
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ever stopped to consider that maybe you're not the best judge of qualities |
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you haven't exactly displayed? Or have I missed something and you have a pool |
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of qualified lawyers lined up wanting to take on this *legal* job? |
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> Seriously, technical achievement means *nothing* here. This is purely a |
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> staff/financial/legal position we're nominating for... |
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Yeah that takes more than just *legal* capability. It also takes managerial |
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ability, as well as business expertise, both of which Patrick possesses. OFC |
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these are not skills especially prevalent in the /technical/ developer pool |
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as the record of your time as Trustee shows. It's the same type of skills |
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that drobbins would bring, were he eligible to stand. |
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I believe him to be the kind of person you want helping you manage the |
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organisational side of things, which requires people who can empathise and |
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motivate, not snipe and whinge at every opportunity. OFC, neither you nor |
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anyone else has to vote for Patrick (assuming he'd even want to stand after |
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being subject to the first personal attack in this process.) |
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