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On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:39:40 +0200 Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera |
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(klondike) wrote: |
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> Hi all! |
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> A common philosophy across the hackers I have grown up with is FIY (Fix |
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> It Yourself). In the spirit of this philosophy I'd like to make the |
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> following nominations to encourage the following people to take a step |
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> forward and try to address the problems they perceive exist on the |
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> Gentoo Foundation: |
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> * Daniel Campbell (zlg) |
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> * Rich Freeman (rich0) |
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> * Kristian Fiskerstand (k_f) |
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> * Andrew Savchenko (bircoph) |
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Thank you for the nomination. |
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I'm afraid in case of the trustee position the desire to fix stuff |
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is not sufficient. If I understand correctly, trustee's work |
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involves a lot of legal and financial issues. And here we have some |
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legal and political limitations. |
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1. The US social security number. To my understanding it is |
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required to deal with financial and accounting smoothly. I don't |
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have one and without it the ways I can help will be very limited. |
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2. Legal expertise. I have near zero knowledge of US laws. I have |
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some knowledge about Russian laws and experience with its |
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bureaucracy, but law systems are so different between countries that |
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such experience is likely more harmful than useful. |
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3. World political issues. Since trustees need to work within US |
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law space my Russian citizenship may harm affairs and make things |
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more complicated for everyone. |
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Due to the reason above I have to decline for now. If I'm wrong and |
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there are other way I can help the Foundation as a trustee without |
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putting it at any risks, I may reconsider, so these issues may be |
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discussed below. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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