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I like both of theese ideas. I also agree with kurt that if we're spending huge chunks of money, then more of us should agree on so to speak |
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I also think that as long as the request meets the questions that john posted, I don't think we should hage a huge long drawn out submission process. |
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On Sat, 22 May 2004, Corey Shields wrote: |
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> Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 16:09:20 -0500 |
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> From: Corey Shields <cshields@g.o> |
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> Reply-To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o |
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> To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-trustees] How are we going to spend money? |
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> On Saturday 22 May 2004 02:02 pm, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> > On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 11:37:46AM -0400 or thereabouts, John Davis wrote: |
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> > > Once we all read the developer's proposal, we could do a simple 2/3 |
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> > > supermajority vote or something similar. |
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> > I would suggest tiering it. Something like the following: |
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> > $0 - 500, 50% majority |
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> > $501 - $2500, 66% majority |
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> > $2501+, 80% majority |
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> I think these are all great ideas. John's idea of proposal requirements is |
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> very good. Then these proposals could be kept along with the public ledger |
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> so that everything is out in the open, and there is never a question of "what |
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> did the trustees do with that last $1,000 dollars?) |
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> I guess a better question would be to take a step back.. how are we going to |
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> make money? Currently, as far as I am aware we are at $0.00, not even enough |
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> to fulfill the CVS ram request. |
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> We have gotten a recent offer of help from Paul Nowack of the NAAEE (.org) |
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> when we get ready to write grant proposals. He has a lot of experience in |
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> that field, and has a great desire to help push Gentoo in the academia and |
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> government areas. I had a video conference with him a couple of months ago |
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> on an unrelated issue, he seemed to be a very well driven man. We also have |
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> a few people here at IU who are good at grant writing (many NFS and IBM sur |
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> grants). However, grants are only one avenue. I just had to throw that in |
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> there as an FYI for the rest of the trustees. |
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> Cheers! |
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> - -Corey |
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