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On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 12:26 -0500, Yuri Vasilevski wrote: |
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> Back to the issue, taking into account the corrections that Ferris |
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> McCormick kindly added and the positivism I sensed in his response, I |
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> talked with Bdale Garbee regarding us, Gentoo Fundation, joining the |
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> SPI and discussed the previous e-mail I sent as well as fmccor's replay. |
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Thank you but at this time I would prefer as an individual and trustee |
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that you not be asking or pursuing information from the SPI. If you look |
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in archives I contacted them official months ago. Most all interactions |
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were cc'd to -nfp list. We are not proceeding with them at this time. |
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I am not sure if we will ever hand over the foundation to an outside |
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entity. We are doing the complete opposite over the past several months. |
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Working on getting the foundation standing on it's own. Not preparing or |
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working to hand it over to another. |
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> And he already talked with a couple other board members and they both |
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> agree that it'd be great to have Gentoo as an associated project. |
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That is no change from when I talked to them. They fund themselves via |
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5% of donations to associated projects. So they can afford to take us on |
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pretty much when ever. |
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> So I think that we really should approach them for our inclusion. |
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We did, it's not an option on the table now. Please come to a foundation |
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meeting if you want to suggest such things. Plus this is a discussion |
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already had. It's not a direction we are really considering at this |
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time. |
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Which is what I told the contact at the SPI I was communicating with |
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several months back. In a more official capacity. When I ended |
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communications with them, because we were not interested in proceeding. |
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> I was |
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> told that the process should be the following, we need to let them know |
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> that we would like to join with a specific one person contact address |
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And that's a hug road block to me. One contact from Gentoo to the SPI. |
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That will not work for us. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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amd64/Java/Trustees |
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Gentoo Foundation |