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I wanted to add two things to my previous email |
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> Refer to bylaws that were approved in today's Trustee meeting: |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~neddyseagoon/docs/FoundationBylawsProposed_7.xml |
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> I cannot understand why a person cannot be on the Council and on the |
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> Trustees? We had someone do so in the past and no conflicts or issues |
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> arose. What is the reasoning that a person cannot serve on the |
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> technical team and the legal team? |
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> Please note: that I do not see validity in the statement 'what if |
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> Council asks for money and dual role person on the Trustee approves |
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> it' as I think that person would hold the same opinion regardless of |
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> being on both teams unless we are saying that we cannot trust our |
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> Council people to not make decisions in the best interest of Gentoo. |
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<addition> |
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From the Gentoo Foundation Charter page: |
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"... the Gentoo project needs a framework for intellectual property |
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protection and financial contributions while limiting the contributors' |
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legal exposure. The Gentoo Foundation will embody this framework without |
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intervening in the Gentoo development." |
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If the Trustees are not supposed to intervene in Gentoo development, that |
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being the technical direction of Gentoo, aren't they are in direct violation |
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of this by determining who cannot be a Council member by their own |
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membership? |
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<second addition> |
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Fmccor voted today that there should be a separation of Trustees and |
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Council. I see a direct conflict in how he was a Trustee and ran for |
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Council, but after not being elected he has now decided that no one else can |
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do it either? He accepted his own Council nomination on 2008-06-05 and |
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responded to a series of 'questions to our nominees' on the same date. |
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From his own email response: |
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> > 4. How do you think the council and trustees can work together to |
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> > make Gentoo better? |
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> I'm already a trustee, so having a council member who is a trustee is |
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> a start. |