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Hey Matthew, |
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Oops! I scrolled down to 'Trustee Responsibilities' and missed the whole |
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infobox at the top of the Trustees page. I am available to the trustees to |
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help out as needed. |
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Regarding metastructure, I think we can add thing that do not interfere |
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with existing processes to do what I'm talking about. It should not require |
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any changes or overhauls to the current metastructure. It just provides |
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more of a path of professional growth for the more senior devs. |
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And yes, the budget goal is orders of magnitude larger than where Gentoo |
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has been, and agreed on spending it with discipline. But of course, more |
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funds opens the possibility for new things. |
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Regards, |
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Daniel |
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On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 6:07 PM, Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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> Snipped down for size, replies inline. |
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> On 17-12-08 16:40:50, Daniel Robbins wrote: |
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> > Hi Andreas, |
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> > FWIW, I have applied to be a non-committing Gentoo developer. Zac Medio |
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> is |
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> > my mentor, so I will be completing that process. I have interest in being |
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> > involved in the following roles: |
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> > 1) Council. I would be happy to participate in council meetings. Just |
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> know |
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> > that if I were invited to participate, I would. |
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> > |
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> > 2) Trustees. I notice that we only have four trustees. I would be happy |
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> to |
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> > serve as the 'fifth Beatle' which would legally obligate me in my role as |
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> > trustee to represent the interests of the Gentoo Foundation and the |
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> health |
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> > of the project, and coordinate with attorneys, etc. |
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> > |
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> Prety sure there's 5 of us. At least there were at the last meeting :D |
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> Here's our up to date info atm. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ |
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> Foundation:Main_Page |
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> We run monthly meetings as well. We don't run closed meetings or |
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> moderate them too much, so watching one or tactfully speaking in one |
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> should be |
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> fine. |
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> > 3) Contributor. I will continue to work with Zac Medico on resolving |
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> > various obscure Portage bugs (often this is more of an IRC discussion and |
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> > exploration of possibilities to solve the problem, which results in some |
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> > kind of definitive plan to address a long-standing bug.) I am also |
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> planning |
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> > to work with robbat2 on a genkernel rewrite and am open to other areas of |
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> > collaboration, both personally and between Gentoo and Funtoo. |
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> > |
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> Glad to have more eyes and hands on that code, also happy to see you going |
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> down |
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> the path of becoming a developer again. |
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> > 4) Metastructure. I would like to start thinking about how to build a |
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> > positive future for those very senior Gentoo developers who have |
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> > traditionally experienced burn-out and cynicism. |
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> I'd need to hear more here before commenting, but there was an attempt |
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> a year ago, by me even) to try to change the metastructure to be more like |
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> a |
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> clasical business (or even a 'tree' structure) instead of our current 'two- |
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> headed-beast'. It didn't go so well... |
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> > 5) Fund-raising. I would ideally like to see the Gentoo Foundation have |
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> an |
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> > operating budget of around .5M USD. I think this is an achievable goal. |
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> > This means having a positive vision for Gentoo that we can communicate |
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> > outwards and that resonates with the world. |
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> I imagine that this is an annual operating budget? I don't think we've |
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> recieved |
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> that much in donations in our lifetime as a distro. While more money is |
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> better |
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> than less, it doesn't mean we should spend it without some dicipline. |
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> > 6) Collaboration. I have some interesting ideas for how we can build |
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> > win-win relationships with Google, Sony and other organizations that are |
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> > using Gentoo -- we can do more than we are doing now. |
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> > 7) Developer. Ongoing work on Portage and genkernel, and other areas. |
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> > Regards, |
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> > |
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> > Daniel |
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> > |
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> -- |
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> Matthew Thode (prometheanfire) |
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