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It is both a practical and a legal requirement that the Foundation have |
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a means of communicating with its members. Because Gentoo and the |
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Gentoo Foundation do all their work via such media as IRC, email, and |
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the forums, this really means we must have a mailing list to which all |
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Foundation members are subscribed. |
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Roy (NeddySeagoon) believes that this should be a mailing list whose |
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distribution is exactly the Foundation members and to which only the |
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trustees and officers of the foundation may post. After thinking about |
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it for a bit, I agree with him. This would be a very low traffic list |
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because it would be restricted to critical communications from the |
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Foundation to its members. (Think of it as a mailing to stockholders, |
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because that is actually what it is.) |
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So, I suggest we establish a new mailinglist (say, |
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foundation-announce@g.o) and make sure that all members are |
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subscribed to it. I further suggest that we maintain a small list of |
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people who may post to the list so that only communications from the |
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Foundation to its members are sent to it. This fulfills our obligation |
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to be able to send required announcements to the membership (announcing |
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elections, questions put to the membership for approval, and such like). |
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It has the side benefit of giving us immediate validation of the email |
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addresses we have on record for our members and allows us to correct (if |
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possible) any stale email addresses. (If yours changes but you don't |
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tell us, we have no way of knowing unless we send something to you.) |
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Comments? Please respond rather quickly, because as those of you who |
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follow Foundation actions know, we are opening nominations for two |
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trustee positions in a bit over a week. |
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Thanks and regards, |
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Ferris |
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) |