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William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: [Fri Jan 18 2008, 04:25:54PM CST] |
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> Does the SFC have adequate funding? Seemed like they were very tight on |
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> funds, and even if we had a our ducks in a row. All things per their |
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> list and likings. They have no $ for us. |
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I'll leave that up to the SFC to decide. Some time ago the SFC issued |
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us an invitation to join them, and explained what doing so would mean |
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(see http://www.grantgoodyear.org/g2blog/gentoo/20070717-sflc.html |
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for details). Neither they nor us are committed to anything right now, |
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but sending them the information they requested would allow them to make |
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a decision. We could then decide to go with them, somebody else, or |
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keep things going ourselves. |
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> Much less if they have never managed an entity like that. Why are you so |
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> confident they can handle us and our problems? Not meant to be |
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> confrontational, just curious your thoughts there. |
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Mostly because they problems we face are similar to the problems their |
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other projects face--preserving and protecting trademarks and |
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copyrights, handling finances, etcetera. |
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> Seems like them being new, lack of adequate funding, and lack of |
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> experience managing an entity like ours, much less our size. Seems like |
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> a very risky proposition. |
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Not really, as far as I can tell. They're likely to do a better job |
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than we've been doing, since I think we could trust them to file the |
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appropriate paperwork, at least. That said, their contract with us |
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would have an "escape clause". At any time we could take our assets and |
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set up a new Foundation, and they'll help us do it. |
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> IMHO the SPI is WAY better. More established, been around longer. |
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> Manages Debian, used to do Gnome, etc. Likely has enough funding, surely |
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> enough experience, etc. |
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That may be true, and if somebody wants to contact the folks at SPI, |
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please feel free. It's not like we'd be joining the SFC tomorrow, no |
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matter what happens. |
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I hope that helps, |
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g2boojum |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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