[gentoo-nfp] Re: [gentoo-project] Looking for ways the Foundation can accomplish its mission.

[Andrew Savchenko]

Hi!

On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 08:47:05 -0400 Alec Warner wrote:
> Dear Gentoo Community,
>
> I have recently become the President of the Gentoo Foundation Inc. The
> Foundation's documents[0] provide fairly terse guidance on how the
> Foundation is to be operated. The Foundation currently provides funding for
> Gentoo Infrastructure, and very little else. Part of my job as President is
> to determine what additional activities the Foundation can pursue (if any);
> and to determine how the Foundation can improve Gentoo by investing in
> infrastructure, while still meeting the spirit of the other restrictions on
> Foundation activities[1]. So community, how do you think the Foundation can
> assist the development of Gentoo?
>
> Some ideas might be:
>  - Host a Gentoo Conference.
>  - Host a bug-bounty program.
>  - Fund talks about Gentoo development activities at industry conferences.
>  - Invest significantly in Infrastructure spending to fund ambitious
> projects.

First and foremost the Foundation should focus on its primary
goal: funding, its financial accounting and becoming non for profit
organization.

Current state of the Foundation's bookkeeping is concerning: we have
not seen final annual financial report for years. Good news that
finally preliminary reports are published (thanks robbat2!), but
they are not final and there is still a lot of work to do.

Tax status is unclear (it was discussed earlier that the Foundation
may have to pay quite sufficient tax as a penalty for lousy
accounting).

And the Foundation still lacks non for profit official status.

Lack of human resources is a long-standing problem for the
Foundation and embracing more goals while failing with the critical
ones is an unwise idea.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko
Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko