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I accept. |
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Admittedly I don't have much of a platform these days: |
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(0) Continue operation of the Foundation; so that means retaining the CPA, |
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helping robbat2 with the books (I should be doing more here admittedly), |
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renewing the Foundations New Mexico Status, and ensuring our taxes are |
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filed and paid when we have tax due (in Fiscal 2020 we took a loss, so |
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owned none.) |
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(1) Voting on any items raised by members (membership requests, funding |
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requests, etc.) I think the big miss this year was the openssl bug that I |
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lost track of and Robin picked up (as always, thanks Robin!) |
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(2) Restructuring our donations (perhaps limiting them to our recurring |
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expenses or diverting them to the OSL or other in-kind sponsors.) |
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(3) Engaging the council more directly in budget decisions where we prepare |
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the books but seek council approval as well as board approval. |
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This year we streamlined operations (getting rid of monthly meetings in |
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favor of bugs, doing more work over email, etc.) This has helped me budget |
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time more effectively and try to devote time to items that matter; I felt |
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like the 1 hour monthly meetings were low-value and mostly resulted in |
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discussion that went nowhere. If we are going to admittedly do very little, |
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we might as well not spend 10 extra hours discussing the stuff we are not |
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doing. I feel better about foundation operations in light of the |
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streamlining as it takes less effort to operate the Foundation in this mode |
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and this was one concern I had had in years past in terms of staying on and |
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doing 0 and 1 above. Admittedly these activities keep the scope of the |
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Foundation small but in my estimation this is desired currently. |
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Other folks have raised dissolution as a desired outcome, however I'm of |
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the opinion that there is no real consensus on what that would look like |
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practically. I think part of my item 3 is to try to practically drive that |
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(where Gentoo Foundation is the holding company and we liaison with the |
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council to actually raise and dispense money.) |
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-A |
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On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 6:54 AM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Mon, 28 Jun 2021, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> > The 2021 election for the Gentoo Foundation board of trustees is coming |
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> up. |
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> > Anyone who is a Foundation Member as of July 1, 2021; is eligible to |
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> vote. |
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> > The nomination period is July 1 - 15 2021. |
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> I'd like to nominate antarus and robbat2. |
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