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Joshua, |
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On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 07:43 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: |
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> William, |
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> >> The SFC presently lacks funds to take on a project of our size. Not to |
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> >> mention is some what new, and has never managed a project like ours. Much |
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> >> less with our existing structure. |
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> I wouldn't be too worried about that with us as we have Debian, |
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> PostgreSQL and OpenOffice.org :) |
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Great, as financing is one of the major obstacles to handing things over |
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to the SFC. |
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> >> |
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> >> I know via the SFC's connection to the SFLC. Provides them more of an |
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> >> ability to provide legal counsel than the SPI. |
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> We actually have two attorneys one is SFLC and another who has beeen |
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> with us for some time. |
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Excellent |
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> > But from what I have been |
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> >> told. If Gentoo's Foundation or Project is in proper legal standing, |
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> >> and/or an entity like the SPI managing 1-2 above. We can apply to the |
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> >> SFLC independently for counsel. |
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> >> |
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> Right but see above about us already having this resource for you. |
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Sure no worries. Just wasn't something that would prevent us from |
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dealing with the SPI. But now it's moot per your info :) |
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> >> I am just doing some initial research, to see if the SPI would even be |
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> >> interested. What we need to do before applying, if anything, etc. |
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> Take a look at: |
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> http://www.spi-inc.org/treasurer/associated-project-howto.html |
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> http://www.spi-inc.org/secretary/joining-spi-projects.html/ |
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I did, just wasn't sure if we should proceed with the application or |
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not. Looks like I am doing step 2 of the second link. Before we proceed |
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with the steps from the other. |
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> I wasn't quite clear from your email. Are you looking to just use SPI |
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> until you get your paperwork cleaned up? Or are you actually looking to |
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> build a relationship with SPI. |
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I am on a fact finding mission about the SPI. We have discussed turning |
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things over to the SFC/SPI. We are unsure if we will resolve things in |
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house, or clean things up, and hand over to another. |
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Either way we are going to clean things up before proceeding. Just |
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weighing out our options on proceeding from there. Many are in favor of |
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handing things over. Thus looking for information to reinforce that. |
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Anything we do with the SPI beyond gathering information would be a long |
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term proposition for the foreseeable future. We are not looking to the |
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SPI to help us clean up our present mess then move on. More the other |
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way around. Clean up mess, proceed with SPI or in house. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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Gentoo/amd64/Java |