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Brian Harring wrote: [Thu Sep 08 2005, 01:30:09AM CDT] |
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> Hola. |
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> Maybe I'm blind, but haven't seen anything as of late out of |
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> foundation; status of 503c fex, etc. |
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> Perhaps time for an update? |
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Well, Summer's over (more or less), so it's time for an update on |
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Foundation stuff. I've done relatively little the last few months. I |
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was supposed to be working on banking stuff, but after calling a number |
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of banks I was starting to really despair until spyderous talked to |
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BofA. It seems that BofA actually will permit us to set up banking that |
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paypal will validate, and that will allow us to provide access to |
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non-USians. There's a bit of paperwork left to be done (and presumably |
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a vote of trustees on switching banks, although I suspect it will slide |
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by with a vote by acclamation), and hopefully our banking issues will |
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finally be decided. |
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We have a considerable sum of money now. (I'll leave it to cshields to |
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provide an accurate figure.) We need to have a real discussion of how |
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we want to use this money, since presumably people aren't donating so |
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that we can earn interest. In my opinion, the first item on the agenda |
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should be our infrastructure. What's needed, and what can we |
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legitimately provide? Certainly I would think we should be able to |
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afford spare drives, but I'm sure that there's more that we need. |
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Should we just have an annual budget for infra, and let them make the |
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decisions? That's probably what I would prefer. |
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Discussions about copyright transfer are still continuing. We have a |
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draft document that's had some discussion, and I'd really like to have |
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something public for people to comment on. The people most involved in |
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this process have been klieber and cshields (and, I suspect, dmwaters, |
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who just hasn't been quite as visible). To those folks: can we get |
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something more broadly posted for review, or are things still too |
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preliminary? |
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Dostrow has been looking into relocating the Foundation to someplace |
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where we either actually have somebody, or that doesn't care whether we |
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do or not. Any results there? |
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I know that cshields has been busy doing all of the other things, so |
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that the IRS filing is still in the works. Is there anything that |
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people can do to help with that? Note that until our annual income |
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surpasses a certain amount (which I've forgotten), we need not file |
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income tax returns, and the IRS filing is not horribly urgent. We're a |
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type 6 (?) just by dint of saying that we are and acting appropriately. |
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The store has been oursourced to cafepress, and is mostly running |
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itself. It would be good to have a trustee (and a backup) dedicated to |
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handling store issues; anybody want to volunteer? So far we've been |
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informally answering e-mails as they come along. |
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I think that's about it for the moment. We have 13 trustees, so it's |
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entirely possible that people are working on things that I don't know |
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about. We should really fix that. *Grin* We have a number of areas |
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that need stuff done: banking, IRS filing, IP issues, store, budgeting |
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and spending money, relocation, and stuff that I'm sure I'm missing. |
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I'm happy to help with banking and the relocation of the Foundation (and |
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anything else that really needs me). Can we "divvy" up the rest? |
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Best, |
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g2boojum |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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