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Ned Ludd wrote: [Mon Jul 16 2007, 04:00:44PM CDT] |
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> Long term I worry about the foundation. No offense to anybody. I'm sure |
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> I don't know or understand the problems you/we have encountered along |
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> the way. But I think we need to face it 99.9% of our devs are not |
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> suited to run a foundation such as this. That's not a bad thing in any |
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> such way. Most of us came to this project cuz we are geeks doing geeky |
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> things is what we do best.. |
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> I'm sure some of you get roped into doing the foundation because |
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> you truly love Gentoo and want to see things be taken care of. However |
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> to be frank. I don't think I've seen a single substantial thing |
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> accomplished sense cshields left Gentoo. Please don't take that the |
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> wrong way. I know we are all busy people. Perhaps you guys have done |
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> shitloads and I/we just don't know about it. Perhaps it's still the same |
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> old story.. We are waiting on ABC banks. We can't re-incorp without |
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> XYZ first. |
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Actually, we have a bank, paypal successfully talks to it, and |
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I believe that we're completely caught up w/ all of the various funding |
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requests that we've received. You're point is still a good one, |
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however. |
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> Anyway point I'm trying to make here is that I think we might be |
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> better off using a 3rd party as our foundation. IE people who have |
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> the experience/motivation and time to focus on such things |
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> that a foundation should be. |
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> Anyway. I'd like to nominate nobody in-house. |
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Yeah, I tend to agree. Not-so-coincidentally, Gentoo's been invited to |
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join the Software Freedom Conservancy, which would provide just the sort |
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of 3rd-party management that you're suggesting. I put a write-up on my |
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blog detailing what we know so far: |
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http://www.grantgoodyear.org/g2blog/gentoo/20070717-sflc.html |
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I'm cross-posting to -dev, and suggesting that comments be sent |
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there as well, since most people don't read -nfp. |
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If you think this is a good idea, a bad idea, or you just want to know |
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more, now's the time to express your opinion. |
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-g2boojum- |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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