Re: [gentoo-trustees] Bylaws

[John Davis]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 18:52 -0500, Corey Shields wrote:
> Sven Vermeulen wrote:
>
> >I don't think I'm the suitable guy for Bylaws. Those are quite juridical and
> >almost always imply a native English writer. I can always take the Bylaws of
> >some other organisations and fix them so they're suitable for the Gentoo
> >Foundation, but I don't think I'm allowed to do that :)
> >
> >
> I'm still up for the filling out the 501(c)(6) paperwork, but one of
> those things we need are the bylaws..   I think I could handle it all
> but that.  I imagine the bylaws will need input from everyone.  It
> wouldn't hurt there to look off of some other projects and similar NFP's.
>
> -C
>
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> gentoo-trustees@g.o mailing list
>

Corey - 
I have started researching other organization's by-laws and practices. I
am currently in contact with the Fedora Project, the Debian Project, and
SPI (http://www.spi-inc.org) (the Debian folks referred me to them). I
will let you know what I find.

Cheers,
-- 
John Davis
Release Engineering
Gentoo Linux Developer/ Manager/ Trustee