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I agree with corey on this. He's said what I've been thinking, but with |
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much better wording.:) |
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On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Corey Shields wrote: |
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> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:05:15 -0500 |
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> From: Corey Shields <cshields@×××××××.edu> |
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> Reply-To: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o |
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> To: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Summary of NFP options |
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> The original purpose of the NFP organization, as I understand it, is to |
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> protect Gentoo from becoming a corporate entity. That is it. People were |
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> afraid of someone running away and making money off of their contributions. |
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> And I think that the corporate-protective NFP is what the development |
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> community wants. The purpose right now should not be to make money or try |
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> and support x number of developers financially, as (almost) everyone is |
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> working happily within their own capacities right now. Development should |
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> continue as it has been, because while there are quirks and problems, as a |
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> whole it works, or else we wouldn't have such a kick ass distribution. |
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> Keep the focus on protecting Gentoo from corporate ties. Let the developers |
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> continue to do their work the way they are currently doing it. I know there |
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> is a concern about lack of QA and R&D, but as Gentoo gains popularity and |
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> more people (and organizations) jump on board, there will be resources to |
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> fill those roles just as there have been resources to create ebuilds. |
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> Basically, I think that the corporate ties issue should be solved first. The |
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> resource issue is new and needs to be tackled later, as the NFP has been in |
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> limbo too long.. |
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> Cheers! |
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> -Corey |
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> On Monday 12 April 2004 07:39 pm, Daniel Robbins wrote: |
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> > Hi guys, |
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> > Here is a very short summary of the NFP progress so far: |
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> -- |
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> Corey Shields - IU Unix Systems Support Group |
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> http://ussg.iu.edu/~cshields |
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> My PGP/GPG public encryption key is at: |
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> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/~cshields/cshields_pub_key.asc |
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> GPG fingerprint: 78A8 E5EB E455 0A90 F392 59BC A6AF F8A3 A304 1453 |
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> gpg: Signature made Mon Apr 12 20:05:15 2004 CDT using DSA key ID A3041453 |
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> gpg: Good signature from "Corey Shields <cshields@×××××××.edu>" |
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> gpg: aka "Corey Shields <cshields@g.o>" |
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> gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! |
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> gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. |
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> Primary key fingerprint: 78A8 E5EB E455 0A90 F392 59BC A6AF F8A3 A304 1453 |
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Gentoo Linux: dmwaters@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org |
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