Re: [gentoo-nfp] Questions For Gentoo Foundation Trustee Candidates

[Alec Warner]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 1:15 PM Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote:

> On 2019.07.13 13:12, Roy Bamford wrote:
> > Team,
> >
> > This is a meta topic to collect Questions For Gentoo Foundation
> > Trustee Candidates together.
> > The idea seemed to work well on -project for council candidates.
> >
> > Reply to this post with new questions only. The resulting sub topics
> > will help keep responses and resulting discussion organised.
> > Accordingly, I will respond to this post with my question.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Roy Bamford
> > (Neddyseagoon) a member of
> > elections
> > gentoo-ops
> > forum-mods
> > arm64
>
> Team,
>
> In the event that the newly elected Foundation board determine that the
> Gentoo Foundation should be dissolved in favour of joining an umbrella
> how do the trustee candidates see Gentoos assets being managed?
>
> We will still have to manage our own assets, defend our trademarks
> and so on. The Foundation will be gone and with it the group charged
> with doing this sort of thing.
>

I don't understand your question. "Gentoo" as a legal organization would
not exist. The assets would be owned by the umbrella. Donations would go to
the umbrella. The Community would submit requests to spend money to the
umbrella (the same way they submit funding requests to the existing Gentoo
Foundation.)

Is that clearer?


>
> I asked this question to council candidates too and received only
> two responses from 11 candidates.
>
>
> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/8ebd22b9051fb8051dc0721cd6b02724
>
> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/8fec651f7d5af156412767971b0773f6
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Roy Bamford
> (Neddyseagoon) a member of
> elections
> gentoo-ops
> forum-mods
> arm64