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On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 03:37:22PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2019-07-13 at 13:18 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: |
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> > On 2019.07.13 13:12, Roy Bamford wrote: |
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> > > Team, |
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> > > |
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> > > This is a meta topic to collect Questions For Gentoo Foundation |
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> > > Trustee Candidates together. |
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> > |
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> > We have several candidates with a declared platform of dissolving |
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> > the Gentoo foundation. |
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> This is already answered in my Manifesto [1] but I'll repeat here for |
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> completeness. |
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> > 1. Will all candidates make their position on the future of the Foundation |
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> > clear. |
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> I'm for dissolving the Foundation in favor of professional umbrella if |
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> such an opportunity arises (unless the offer is very bad). If this |
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> turns out not to be possible, I believe we should aim towards |
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> maintaining good standing forward, look for a ways to reduce the costs |
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> of maintaining it and look for the possibility of making donations tax- |
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> deducible (if we are really able of supporting that). |
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Yes, we are capable of gaining proper tax-exemption status and ensuring that |
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donations can be considered charitable for our donators. |
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> > 2. Will all candidates explain the reasoning supporting their position |
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> > on their future plans for the existence (or otherwise) of the Foundation. |
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> The reasoning is simple. We haven't been able to maintain Foundation |
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> in really good standing *for years*. Even if we are closing to |
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> *finally* fix things, it mostly relies on a few people putting a lot of |
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> work, and this means low bus factor. There's no way to know that |
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> a future Trustee board won't mess everything up again, and we still |
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> barely have any candidates in the elections. |
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By-laws can mandate the retention of a CPA. Additionally, reimplementing the |
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"removal of officers" section of the by-laws is paramount. I am shocked this has |
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been removed/deleted. |
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> We should look for solutions that are sustainable long-term, and not |
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> base our decisions on nostalgia. |
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> [1] https://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/trustee-manifesto-2019.txt |
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> -- |
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> Best regards, |
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> Michał Górny |
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Cheers, |
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Aaron |
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