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> Executive summary: |
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> I accept. Don't vote for me unless you have a good reason. I nominate |
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> Jakub. |
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> Be excellent to each other, |
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> Patrick |
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> aka bonsaikitten, Evil Compile Person etc. etc. |
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Well, thanks... after quite some time of thinking, I decided to accept. |
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:) I don't believe much in manifestos, so just some brief points. |
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* Paperwork, paperwork, paperwork... |
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Yeah, needs to be finished, and needs to keep flowing as required so |
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that similar things ones don't ever happen again. Bylaws, etc. |
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SFC/SPI - needs more discussion IMO, already mentioned by NeddySeagoon |
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after all. [2] |
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* Sponsors!!! |
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Lets prevent more mishaps like the ones armin76 mentioned on an internal |
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mailing list, and which are documented in bugzilla as well after all. |
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Won't refer to particular cases here, not after mud slinging, but things |
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like this should never happen again. The handling of the offers in |
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particular from non-US entities has been really really suboptimal in |
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past years. |
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We also need to define some standards and responsibilities for this, |
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like trustees vs. infra etc., the 'thank you' aspects (logos on website |
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etc. etc.), the legal aspects need to be discussed and so on. |
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In general, my view is that we need much more infrastructure on the |
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other side of the big pond, diversification is good mkay... :P That's |
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nothing against big sponsors, but what happens if they go away for one |
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reason or another, hmmm? |
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* Copyrights... Never got sorted out, anyway - I'm with kittens on this |
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[1] :P Being a lawyer, I can confirm what's said wrt this issue there. |
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What works for US, doesn't work for continental legal systems at all, |
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needs to be sorted out, even if not the most urgent thing really. |
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* Giving some second thoughts to the metastructure stuff... |
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drobbins raised quite a couple of good point here, something that is |
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worth a discussion. Also partially covers what bonsaikitten mentioned in |
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his mail [1], i.e. the trustees role in general. |
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* PR |
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I think the way dberkholz started is a great progress after lots of |
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stagnation here. We've also GMN going, lets keep the stuff going in the |
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right direction. |
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Eh, this is getting long, so lets finish here. Thanks for reading the |
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above if you finished this, and don't forget to vote in the elections. |
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Have a nice day. |
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Best regards, |
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Jakub Moc |
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mailto:jakub@g.o |
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GPG signature: |
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http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCEBA3D9E |
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Primary key fingerprint: D2D7 933C 9BA1 C95B 2C95 B30F 8717 D5FD CEBA |
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3D9E |
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... still no signature ;) |
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[1] |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-nfp/msg_68841e60297b8371a7c51dab3f1e7b79.xml |
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[2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~neddyseagoon/docs/manifesto.xml |