Re: [gentoo-nfp] Trustee meeting Meetings/2018/05 agenda

[Raymond Jennings]

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 13 May 2018, Matthew Thode wrote:
>
>> Please send any new agenda items as new threads to the gentoo-nfp
>> list.
>
> The Gentoo Council was asked [1] to provide input on updating the
> Social Contract. In the 2018-04-08 Council meeting [2], the following
> change of the first paragraph has been approved unanimously.
>
> The first paragraph of the Social Contract currently reads:
>
> | This social contract is intended to clearly describe the overall
> | development policies and standards of the Gentoo project development
> | team. Parts of this document have been derived from the Debian
> | Social Contract. It is generally very similar to it except that
> | certain parts have been clarified and augmented while other parts
> | deemed redundant have been removed. Comments are welcome. Please
> | send them to our gentoo-dev@l.g.o mailing list.

I would like to point out that this instruction to send email to the
gentoo-dev list may interact with the concurrent discussion regarding
whitelisting policy for senders to the same list.

> With the change applied, the full wording of the first paragraph would
> read:
>
> | This social contract is intended to clearly describe the overall
> | development policies and standards of the Gentoo project development
> | team. Parts of this document have been derived from the Debian
> | Social Contract. Comments are welcome. Please send them to our
> | gentoo-project@l.g.o mailing list.
>
> The Council requests the Foundation Trustees to approve this change in
> their next meeting.
>
> Ulrich
>
>
> [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/7dc299781f08ccc6f7b5dca08b4acb06
> [2] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20180408-summary.txt