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On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 03:26 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: |
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> > I am not a fan of bureaucracy, but I am a fan of structure and |
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> > organization. Without you get chaos, and we have that on so many fronts. |
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> We got chaos because some people are too attached to the letter of |
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> laws/policy/writtenpaper from my point of view. |
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Which I tried to fight. But bottom line, people are open to change |
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things, but not retroactively. Thus until someone does something, and we |
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move forward with elections. We are stuck in a quagmire. |
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> > Um, did you not see all the emails where I was fighting GLEP 39? You |
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> > mentioned the word rules. Which the council is at the top of all. Yet |
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> > the council doesn't seem to want to enforce their own rules against |
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> > themselves. |
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> Check the council ml. |
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Ok will do, guess I should have been commenting there. Seemed like most |
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conversations about that were taking place on -project. |
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> I followed the discussion on -project but I won't comment there, I |
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> already gave my opinion on the -council ml. |
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Ok great. Thank you for your input on the matter. But at the end of the |
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day, opinions are moot. What action is being taken? Is the council |
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staying or going? |
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> > It is a NPO organization, 501c6. Inc has nothing to do with the type of |
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> > entity. No more than anything else in the name. Incorporation does not |
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> > imply profit. |
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> I was referring to Gentoo Technologies inc. |
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Yes I read something about past issues wrt to embedded Gentoo. Not sure |
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it was a very long time ago. But that entity hasn't exists for some |
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time. Predates foundation's creation. |
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http://www.nmprc.state.nm.us/cgi-bin/prcdtl.cgi?2055978+GENTOO+TECHNOLOGIES+INC |
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> > Based on how it seemed Daniel operated in the past. I don't think he |
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> > asked anyone's permission when he resigned and created the foundation. |
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> > Thus I would find it surprising for him to poll, and act on majority wrt |
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> > to the type of foundation he was to create. |
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> In short, the 6 one was quicker to get, at least that's what I recall. |
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Yes, the other takes 5 years, and the 5 years is a probationary period |
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so to speak. |
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> > In how it functions, and it's mission. Not the type of legal entity it |
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> > is. |
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> c.f. the freebsd nfp |
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Which I have looked into allot. They fund developer travel via grants. |
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And do allot of things. Not to mention have like $400k, and have |
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investments. Money market account, etc. |
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Soo many things we are likely years away from or decades at this pace. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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amd64/Java/Trustees |
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Gentoo Foundation |