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On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 15:26 -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> Hello Board of Trustees and Gentoo Foundation members, |
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> Since there is no documented procedure in place for doing this, I am |
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> doing this on the only officially-listed location for Foundation-related |
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> information/discussion. |
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Documentation for such does need to be created. Which very well will |
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likely consists of emails like this. Either sent publicly to the list |
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or privately to all trustees, a trustee, or otherwise. To respect the |
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privacy wishes of members wishing to leave but not disclose intentions. |
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> As of this moment, I wish to have my membership |
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> in the Gentoo Foundation revoked. |
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Ok, we will see that is done. Which I believe is mostly just removing |
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from voting abilities I believe. Not sure what else membership involves |
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or entails at this time. |
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> As a former member of the Gentoo |
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> Foundation Board of Trustees, I find the attitude and general |
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> distasteful treatment of members of this list by several members of the |
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> board to be appalling. As such, I no longer wish to be associated with |
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> this body, in any way, shape, or form. I strongly feel that certain |
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> elements within the current membership is more concerned with how they |
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> can best benefit themselves than what is best for the open source Gentoo |
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> project. |
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Well that's very sad to hear. I for one can say I am losing out in many |
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ways with my involvement. Much less Gentoo in the form of me not being |
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as active as I have been or would like to have been this year. |
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I am really concerned myself with the loss of time, money, etc with |
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little benefit to the community and Gentoo so far. While there has been |
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some minor progress and good things. I feel there are many basic tasks |
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still to be done, and the accomplishment level so far is quite low. |
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I am not aware of any other board members gaining anything personally, |
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either directly or indirectly at this time. I am very saddened to hear |
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that one would feel that. |
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> Please remove me from any future correspondence with regards to the |
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> Gentoo Foundation. |
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That would I guess mean this list and maybe the trustee alias if you are |
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still on that as a past trustees. Both I believe you can do as a dev and |
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as a infra team member. But we can make sure you are removed. |
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> I have no desire to participate in the political |
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> wrangling and insulting manner in which this legal body represents |
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> itself in public. Since the responses to many of these offenses seem to |
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> be shed in a positive light, I am left with no recourse of action other |
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> than to respectfully part ways with the current body. |
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> Thank you, |
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Your wishes will be respected. |
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> (P.S. - There's no point in responding to me, as I am unsubscribing from |
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> this list, effective immediately.) |
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Responding to list only because of the public posting. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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amd64/Java/Trustees |
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Gentoo Foundation |