Re: [gentoo-nfp] You need to pay them

[Daniel Robbins]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 11:51 AM, Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@g.o>
wrote:

> Forgetting if it's possible to pay us (trustees).  I'm not in support of
> it.  I'd rather spend the money hiring a CPA and then deal with less
> overhead than get paid and also not do as good of a job as hiring it out
> would be.
>

That would certainly be nice, but so far our trustees haven't found the
time to find the right people to help them run the Foundation. This takes
time too. Maybe this year will be the exception.

So maybe that will happen. Maybe it will not. Either way, I think, we need
to realize that even coordinating with outside contractors and attorneys
who are doing the books and handling legal issues for us requires
significant time. Maybe quite a bit less than doing the books in-house. But
I will continue to suggest that my idea (maybe in some modified form) has
merit, and that my observation that we are getting exactly the kind of
results we should expect is entirely true.

I also think the pursuit of fund-raising has merit. Growing the Foundation
has merit.

And I think that the trustees should offer some value to Gentoo developers.
You see the rift between trustees and Council right now. What would things
look like if the Foundation brought in tons of donations and these
donations allowed our top devs to actually work on Gentoo full-time? I
think you would start to see developers looking at the Foundation as an
incredible asset because the Foundation would accelerate development. That
is what it should be doing. The vision is to transform the Foundation from
project liability to asset.

I want to help people see that vision. The Foundation should be grown into
an asset that helps Gentoo accomplish its mission. Right now it is seen as
a set of annoying responsibilities. It need not be that way.

Best,

Daniel