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On Fri, 2020-07-17 at 19:50 -0500, Matthew Thode wrote: |
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> On 20-07-17 21:41:30, Roy Bamford wrote: |
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> > Team, |
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> > The responses so far raise a further questions. |
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> > The Foundation currently has 74 members, not all of whom can serve as trustees. |
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> > The board consists of 5 members. |
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> > It follows that the board must consist of about 7% of the membership. |
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> > I'll go on to suggest that 7% is an unreasonably large proportion of the membership |
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> > required to serve on the board of our own legal entity. |
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> > |
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> > As supporting evidence, I'll cite the lack of competition for seats on the board |
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> > over the last 12 years. |
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> > How do the candidates that favour maintaining our own legal entity intend to attract |
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> > a) more members? |
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> > b) members willing and able to serve as trustees? |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > Regards, |
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> > |
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> > Roy Bamford |
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> > (Neddyseagoon) a member of |
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> > elections |
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> > gentoo-ops |
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> > forum-mods |
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> > arm64 |
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> I would suggest an alternative, we could reduce down to 3 trustees. |
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Are you sure we won't end up with a little low bus factor? Although |
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I do realize there's no real difference between having 3 Trustees |
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and having 3 active Trustees out of 5 (not saying this is right now, |
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just theoretically). |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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