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On 2008.08.16 14:30, Yuri Vasilevski wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:10:50 -0400 |
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> "William L. Thomson Jr." <wltjr@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 12:26 -0500, Yuri Vasilevski wrote: |
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> > > |
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> > > Back to the issue, taking into account the corrections that |
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> Ferris |
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> > > McCormick kindly added and the positivism I sensed in his |
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> response, |
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> > > I talked with Bdale Garbee regarding us, Gentoo Fundation, |
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> joining |
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> > > the SPI and discussed the previous e-mail I sent as well as |
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> > > fmccor's replay. |
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> > |
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> > Thank you but at this time I would prefer as an individual and |
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> trustee |
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> > that you not be asking or pursuing information from the SPI. If you |
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> > look in archives I contacted them official months ago. Most all |
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> > interactions were cc'd to -nfp list. We are not proceeding with |
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> them |
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> > at this time. |
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> I apologise if I did something inappropriate, but I want to assure |
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> you |
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> that I always tried to make it clear that this were just my questions |
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> and that I asked them withing the gentoo context so I could get a |
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> more |
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> precise information for me to know how things would work (and then, |
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> because I liked it, I decided to share it a the whole, even when it |
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> overlapped with already available information). |
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[snip] |
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> Kindest regards, |
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> Yuri. |
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Yuri, |
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No harm done and thank you for the time you have spent on following up |
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this opportunistic encounter. |
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The trustees are acutely aware that one of the reasons the |
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Gentoo Foundaion fell out of good standing last year was that several |
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alternative long term stratergies for the future of the Gentoo |
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Foundation were being investigated at the same time. |
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SPI, continuing in New Mexico or reincorporating in another state (to |
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name three) were all being looked at which overstreched the available |
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resources. |
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The present trustees are trying to learn from that and get the Gentooo |
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Foundation back into good standing and standing on its own feet before |
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we look at long term options, of which SPI is one. |
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My own view is the the Gentoo developer pool and Foundation members |
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have neither the skills nor interests to run the Foundation thmeselves |
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in the long term, which leaves three alternatives. |
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1. Open Foundation Membership to all gentoo contributors |
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2. Join an umbrella organistion, such as the SPI. |
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3. Attract more peole with the skills and interests the Foundation |
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needs to the developer pool. |
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Option 3. May sound a bid odd but such people need not be software |
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developers, they can be Gentoo staff, like myself. |
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The time is not right to choose among these options yet as all the |
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information is not available and its not at the top of the Trustees |
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agenda yet. It is on the TODO list though. |
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- -- |
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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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