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On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:01 PM Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote: |
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> Also, we would need to operate two NFPs when at this election |
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> we only secured enough candidates to staff one ... if they are all |
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> ranked above _reopen_nominations in the poll. |
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This just sounds like twice as many opportunities to get things wrong, |
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and it splits our resources. |
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> To follow on your example, there are several competing 2FA |
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> solutions with differing feature sets. While Nitrokey may be |
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> selected for <reasons> the comparative value assesment still |
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> needs to be performed or the trustees would be neglecting their |
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> duty by rubber stamping council decisions. |
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Why would we think that the trustees would do any better a job at this |
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than the Council? Why would the Council want to waste money? There |
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is a limited pool of resources, and if the Council is making decisions |
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like this I'd imagine most developers would vote to select people they |
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trust to make these decisions. |
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If we went to an umbrella org then there is a good chance that the |
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Council will end up making these kinds of decisions. |
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Besides, why would we want multiple decision-making bodies, where one |
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body can choose to invest in something, and then another body can |
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ensure that all that investment is wasted by denying complementary |
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investment? That could go either way. |
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> Such bylaws would make me nervous ... what happens if the new |
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> legal entity has insuffcient funds to pay these people. I suppose it |
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> just goes bankrupt, like any other legal entity. |
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Honestly, I don't see any point in codifying random decisions in bylaws. |
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Bylaws are supposed to be general principles we operate on. They |
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don't codify individual operating decisions. Those decisions should |
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be documented, but elsewhere. |
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Also, we don't need to spin up a new legal entity just to change the |
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bylaws. They can be changed at any time fairly easily actually, |
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assuming the Trustees concur. |
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That said, I'm all for paying people to do jobs that need to be done |
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reliably when volunteers aren't cutting it (and historically, they |
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haven't been). This is a big argument in favor of an umbrella, |
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because there is an economy in splitting these costs across many orgs. |
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But, if we were independent I'd rather pay a CPA to do the taxes |
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properly/etc. And then we'd make sure that not a dime gets paid to |
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anybody without the CPA knowing about it... |
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Rich |
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