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Doug Klima wrote:
> I'd just like to remind everyone that trustees are people that should
> have a bit of business savvy about them and should be comfortable
> dealing with paper work along with budgets. Just because someone is good
> at the technical aspect of Gentoo does not mean they can figure out the
> difference between a hole in the ground and something else.
>
> If you've been nominated, please take the above into consideration
> before accepting. Don't just accept because you "want to make a
> diference in Gentoo and the previous guys just did it wrong." We've had
> enough of those platforms and frankly those people fell flat on their
> faces and left us in that situation.
>
> If you've never heard of the UCC or what corporate bylaws are and mean,
> you should sit out of this one and get involved in another aspect of
> Gentoo.
Here are some New Mexico documents that Grant has been using lately, in
his heroic efforts to get things back on track:
http://tinyurl.com/2v6qtl
It might be a good idea for potential trustees to have a read of those,
and see how much they can make sense of (and see just how uninteresting
the task seems to be, at least in my opinion!)
Daniel
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