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On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 13:29 -0700, Renat Lumpau wrote: |
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> On 7/31/07, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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> > OK. As I see it, we don't even have enough people *running* to be a |
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> > trustee. So, what should we do, instead? |
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> > Well, how about this? First, hold an election with a few items: |
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> > - Join the SFC |
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> > - Become a 501(c)(3) in DE |
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> > - Become a 501(c)(6) in DE |
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> Why do we need to hold an election about this? I was under the |
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> impression the current trustees have already agreed. Or did I miss |
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> something? |
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We're not the entire Foundation and I don't think that we should make a |
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change that affects every member such as this without giving them their |
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voice. |
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> Personally, I would rather postpone the trustees election until we're |
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> done with the switch to the SFC. Grant, could we get a status update? |
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Well, I don't think we'll *need* trustees after joining the SFC. The |
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only function that we serve now that will still be needed is deciding on |
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how to spend our money, and I think the Council can do that well enough. |
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> As I said, I'm willing to help (and I might actually have time now), |
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> but I'm not sure where we are in our conversation with Karen. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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