Gentoo Archives: gentoo-nfp

From: Deedra Waters <dmwaters@g.o>
To: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Summary of NFP options]
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:03:05
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.58.0404131359140.1756@simba
In Reply to: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Summary of NFP options] by Corey Shields
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4 I agree with corey on this, and he has said pretty much how I feel. I will
5 also say though that governing wise, I think that it should stay how it is
6 now. I've seen debian for example who does voting for their leaders, and
7 it very quickly becomes a popularity contest, which I don't think is a
8 good thing.
9 On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Corey Shields wrote:
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11 > Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:50:47 -0500
12 > From: Corey Shields <cshields@×××××××.edu>
13 > Reply-To: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
14 > To: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
15 > Subject: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Summary of NFP options]
16 >
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18 > (re-post)
19 >
20 > -C
21 >
22 > -------- Original Message --------
23 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Summary of NFP options
24 > Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:05:15 -0500
25 > From: Corey Shields <cshields@×××××××.edu>
26 > Reply-To: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
27 > To: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
28 > References: <E1BDBxq-0005fN-41@×××××××××××.org>
29 >
30 >
31 > The original purpose of the NFP organization, as I understand it, is to
32 > protect Gentoo from becoming a corporate entity. That is it. People were
33 > afraid of someone running away and making money off of their
34 > contributions.
35 > And I think that the corporate-protective NFP is what the development
36 > community wants. The purpose right now should not be to make money or try
37 > and support x number of developers financially, as (almost) everyone is
38 > working happily within their own capacities right now. Development should
39 > continue as it has been, because while there are quirks and problems, as a
40 > whole it works, or else we wouldn't have such a kick ass distribution.
41 >
42 > Keep the focus on protecting Gentoo from corporate ties. Let the
43 > developers
44 > continue to do their work the way they are currently doing it. I know
45 > there
46 > is a concern about lack of QA and R&D, but as Gentoo gains popularity and
47 > more people (and organizations) jump on board, there will be resources to
48 > fill those roles just as there have been resources to create ebuilds.
49 >
50 > Basically, I think that the corporate ties issue should be solved first.
51 > ~ The
52 > resource issue is new and needs to be tackled later, as the NFP has been in
53 > limbo too long..
54 >
55 > Cheers!
56 >
57 > -Corey
58 >
59 > On Monday 12 April 2004 07:39 pm, Daniel Robbins wrote:
60 > | Hi guys,
61 > |
62 > | Here is a very short summary of the NFP progress so far:
63 >
64 > --
65 > Corey Shields - IU Unix Systems Support Group
66 > http://ussg.iu.edu/~cshields
67 >
68 > My PGP/GPG public encryption key is at:
69 > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/~cshields/cshields_pub_key.asc
70 > GPG fingerprint: 78A8 E5EB E455 0A90 F392 59BC A6AF F8A3 A304 1453
71 >
72 > --
73 > gentoo-nfp@g.o mailing list
74 >
75 >
76 > --
77 > Corey Shields - IU Unix Systems Support Group
78 > http://ussg.iu.edu/~cshields
79 >
80 > My PGP/GPG public encryption key is at:
81 > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/~cshields/cshields_pub_key.asc
82 > GPG fingerprint: 78A8 E5EB E455 0A90 F392 59BC A6AF F8A3 A304 1453
83 > --[PinePGP]-----------------------------------------------------------
84 > gpg: Signature made Tue Apr 13 13:50:47 2004 CDT using DSA key ID A3041453
85 > gpg: Good signature from "Corey Shields <cshields@×××××××.edu>"
86 > gpg: aka "Corey Shields <cshields@g.o>"
87 > gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
88 > gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
89 > Primary key fingerprint: 78A8 E5EB E455 0A90 F392 59BC A6AF F8A3 A304 1453
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91 >
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