Re: [gentoo-nfp] Nomination of Alec Warner (antarus) for the Trustee Election

[Rich Freeman]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 2:15 PM Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote:
>
> Fixing things to wind up the Foundation and fixing things to run
> the Foundation is exactly the same work.
>
> I don't percieve a vote for Alec, at this time, as a vote to wind up
> the Foundaion, that happens later with a vote of members.
>
> Its a vote to fix things, possibly by throwing money at the problems.
>

Sort of.  Keep in mind that if your strategy is to achieve compliance
and spin down, then you're going to be willing to spend quite a bit of
money to resolve things (an unsustainable amount long-term, but there
is no long-term).  You're also going to try to avoid doing stuff that
makes that more complicated (ongoing operations/etc).  You don't need
a sustainable process, because there is nothing to sustain.  Instead
the focus should be on what comes next.  If you can get that long-term
body to start picking up bills and building up donations before you
shut down that might also make sense.  You might appoint a lawyer as
your treasurer/etc.

Then if the community doesn't back the vote you just go bankrupt
because you're out of money and have no sustainable model going
forward.  Either way you dissolve the org I guess, it just changes
whether the community vs the IRS gets the Gentoo name.

-- 
Rich