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On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 20:56 -0700, Ned Ludd wrote: |
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> You seem to want to run the foundation like a business.\ |
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Well unfortunately the foundation is a business. Like it or not, just a |
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non-profit business. You really can't informally run a foundation. I |
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don't think it was ever meant to be a grass roots foundation. I think |
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many have had their own views of the foundation. But I think Daniel had |
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an initial concept, and that wasn't a lame duck foundation. Then again, |
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I don't 100% agree with all concepts there, but something in between, |
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sure. |
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> Please stop |
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> that. You are crossing the line where Gentoo should have something like |
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> it's own Corp vs Foundation worrying about money. |
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Even if you had a corp and foundation. The foundation would still need |
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to be run like a business. Just because it's a NPO and/or you call it a |
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foundation doesn't mean you throw operating as a business out the |
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window. As soon as you file papers, and establish a legal entity. You |
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have created a business and to an extent it should be operated and run |
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like one. Just not one focused on profit, one focused on other things :) |
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Having a corp and foundation, would just be two business to run. |
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Now Gentoo, like many other foundations. Won't have "Bosses" per say. I |
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think many people are to worried about the power aspects. When really |
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these ideas are nothing of the sort. In fact any concerns wrt to power |
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can easily be addressed in the bylaws. As they should be. |
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It has been said that things like GLEP 39, shouldn't be a GLEP but some |
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sort of a more formal document. I am not opposed to writing aspects of |
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the council into the foundations Bylaws. It's part of the foundation in |
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the sense that both are attached to Gentoo. Not part wrt to power, like |
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the foundation dictates to council. To clarify the councils purpose, |
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stipulations, slacker rules, etc. Those things should be declared in a |
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more formal document. As others have stated. I can't think of a better |
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place than the bylaws. |
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In the bylaws we can easily specify that the council has veto, and/or |
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complete power over the board and officers. So anyone worried about such |
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things. Can move past those concerns now :) |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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