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Corey Shields wrote: |
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> To be honest, the current Board is quite new to having money, as we've |
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> only had funds on hand in the past couple of months[2] and we've been |
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> around for almost a year. Nobody is jumping at the bit to spend it |
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> all, but on the other hand I've heard comments that people give the |
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> money with the intention for it to be spent and help Gentoo. It'll be |
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> a fine balance between money that should be saved for possible legal |
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> expenses and other suprises like hardware failures, and money that |
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> should go out (and how much goes to whom). We have had only one |
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> request for funding come in (for a hardware upgrade), and the need is |
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> going to be fulfilled by hardware already within Gentoo's reach. I |
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> know that money will be requested around the time of LWE as well to |
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> help with PR type stuff. |
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I should clarify, there have been other bills (legal stuff), so the |
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statement of "only one request for funding" was from outside of the |
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Foundation. |
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For an example of what I mean by "legal stuff", we recently approved |
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$100 to be spent on the Gentoo trademark renewal (which would also put |
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the trademark under the Foundation's name rather than Gentoo |
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Technologies). The Legal counsel we have is pro bono, however, we have |
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to pay any application fees once something leaves their hands. |
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Cheers, |
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-C |
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