| 1 |
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 07:28 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: |
| 2 |
> Out of curiosity, what has the foundation/the board of trustees |
| 3 |
> actually achieved so far? Topics that come to mind |
| 4 |
> - bylaws |
| 5 |
|
| 6 |
We sorta approved these, but any further traction is on hold at this |
| 7 |
time. |
| 8 |
|
| 9 |
> - copyright |
| 10 |
|
| 11 |
I know that we had discussed quite a bit of this with our lawyers, but |
| 12 |
again, it is on hold. |
| 13 |
|
| 14 |
> - incorporation status/residence |
| 15 |
|
| 16 |
We didn't get anywhere near as far along as I had hoped that we would. |
| 17 |
We did not reincorporate in Delaware. |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
> - financial reports |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
I know we sent out something to this list, but we haven't done any kind |
| 22 |
of actual report. |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
> - bank account |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
We still have Paypal/Netbank. Moving to a different bank would require |
| 27 |
us complete the move to another state first. |
| 28 |
|
| 29 |
> - budgets |
| 30 |
|
| 31 |
No budgets have ever been proposed. Lots of people have talked about |
| 32 |
budgets, myself included, but no work has been done towards them. |
| 33 |
Nobody has even come up with a proposal for any budgets. |
| 34 |
|
| 35 |
> - store |
| 36 |
|
| 37 |
The store hasn't had much going on with it. I'm actually going to make |
| 38 |
a proposal some time soon regarding the store in an attempt to improve |
| 39 |
it. Like many things, changes to the store really require us to be in |
| 40 |
much better shape as a Foundation than we currently are. |
| 41 |
|
| 42 |
So what have we done? |
| 43 |
|
| 44 |
Well, we came up with and all agreed to new Articles of Incorporation |
| 45 |
for use in relocation to Delaware. We agreed on new Bylaws, which would |
| 46 |
be required after reincorporation. The same Bylaws could be applied to |
| 47 |
the current Foundation, but that wasn't really the scope we were going |
| 48 |
for when we were discussing them. We have also been in negotiations |
| 49 |
with the Software Freedom Conservancy, as we have been discussing |
| 50 |
joining that group and disbanding the Foundation. I know this isn't |
| 51 |
likely to be popular with some people, but it really boils down to our |
| 52 |
abilities. We are developers, we're not tax specialists nor lawyers. |
| 53 |
|
| 54 |
> |
| 55 |
> Marius |
| 56 |
> |
| 57 |
-- |
| 58 |
Chris Gianelloni |
| 59 |
Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
| 60 |
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
| 61 |
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
| 62 |
Gentoo Foundation |
Archives