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On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 08:25:17AM -0700, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> Obviously there can be a balance. If the hardware is Foundation owned |
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For the developers that haven't been around a long time, I'd like to |
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bring up what happened when zwelch forked Zynot from Gentoo. |
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zwelch personally owned several systems that were hosted at OSL, for |
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Gentoo development use. The fork was not amicable, and he took the |
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systems with him. |
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What has been done since then, is that the Foundation generally owns the |
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assets it pays for. Some of the assets even have a 'Property of Gentoo |
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Foundation' sticker on it. If a developer still has Foundation assets in |
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their possession when they leave Gentoo, and those assets still have |
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meaningful value (it could be dead or of no further use), the Foundation |
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will pay to ship them back to another developer or somewhere useful to |
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the Foundation. |
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> On the other hand, if the costs are reasonably low there might not be |
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> much risk in making some small payments to cover specific activities |
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> that are likely to benefit Gentoo when the person receiving the |
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> payments already has a history of doing work for Gentoo. We print out |
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> stickers and CDs and hand those out at conferences and we don't ask |
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> what the recipients do with them. Not every expenditure has to be |
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> 100% airtight. |
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The Foundation has already covered embedded systems and parts for |
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developers. Here's a quick snippet of the past bugs covering those, for |
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cases where the hardware does NOT live at OSL: |
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98733(chriswhite, video card), |
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255274(armin76, parts for sh embedded system), |
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284517(darkside, ppc embedded system), |
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343975(darkside, hdd for arm system) |
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373241(mattst88, parts for mips system) |
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417399(shipping hardware from darkside to blueness) |
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474774(mattst88, parts for alpha system) |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Asst. Treasurer |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 |
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