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I for one would respectfully like to see our financial records and status |
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and tax filings etc squared away. |
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My hunch is that having such records in any sort of disarray may well have |
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a chilling effect on future donations. |
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As a hypothetical taxpaying citizen would I want to donate to Gentoo if its |
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nonprofit status were in question? Is there enough doubt on the subject |
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that my concern would be warranted? And if so, would cleaning up the |
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financial records help? |
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As a foundation member and voter, I consider this issue important to me in |
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the upcoming trustee elections. I love gentoo and I use it every day and I |
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want it to continue being healthy looking forward. |
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On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 12:48:42AM -0700, Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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> > Why stop at five when the Council consists of seven members? Three seats |
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> > changed for 2017-2018. I took the time to dig up past election results |
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> > and indicated the change between each year. [1, also attached] The last |
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> > time 3 or more seats changed was in the 2013-2014 election. To me, |
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> > that's significant enough to claim that there is movement within Gentoo, |
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> > especially considering last year's election had no change in seats. |
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> > Before that (2015-2016) was 2 seats, and before that (2014-2015), only |
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> one. |
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> If you want further data, see these links. |
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> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/elections.git/tree/completed |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/Meeting_logs |
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> The meeting logs are more interesting, because of nuances of council |
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> elections: |
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> If a council member steps down, they are replaced by the NEXT available |
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> person on the ballot, as long as that person is above |
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> reopen_nominations. This caused the 2nd election in the 2008 term. |
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> |
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> - 2006/08 election unseated everybody except vapier |
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> - 2006-7: term Flameyes stepped down for personal reasons, but was |
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> re-elected the following term. Uberlord was next on the ballot and |
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> stepped up to take his place. |
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> - 2007-8: vapier & uberlord re-elected, flameeyes returns. |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Robin Hugh Johnson |
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> Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Trustee & Treasurer |
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> E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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> GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 |
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> GnuPG FP : 7D0B3CEB E9B85B1F 825BCECF EE05E6F6 A48F6136 |
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