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El 12/07/17 a las 13:56, Andrew Savchenko escribió: |
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> On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:39:40 +0200 Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera |
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> (klondike) wrote: |
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>> Hi all! |
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>> |
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>> A common philosophy across the hackers I have grown up with is FIY (Fix |
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>> It Yourself). In the spirit of this philosophy I'd like to make the |
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>> following nominations to encourage the following people to take a step |
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>> forward and try to address the problems they perceive exist on the |
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>> Gentoo Foundation: |
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>> |
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>> * Daniel Campbell (zlg) |
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>> * Rich Freeman (rich0) |
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>> * Kristian Fiskerstand (k_f) |
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>> * Andrew Savchenko (bircoph) |
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> Thank you for the nomination. |
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Hi bircoph! |
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> I'm afraid in case of the trustee position the desire to fix stuff |
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> is not sufficient. If I understand correctly, trustee's work |
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> involves a lot of legal and financial issues. And here we have some |
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> legal and political limitations. |
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> 1. The US social security number. To my understanding it is |
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> required to deal with financial and accounting smoothly. I don't |
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> have one and without it the ways I can help will be very limited. |
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Well for what I know, Swift doesn't have such a number either, yet you |
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can see he is registered as one of the directors despite being from |
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Belgium: |
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https://portal.sos.state.nm.us/BFS/online/CorporationBusinessSearch/CorporationBusinessInformation?businessId=214657 |
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> 2. Legal expertise. I have near zero knowledge of US laws. I have |
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> some knowledge about Russian laws and experience with its |
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> bureaucracy, but law systems are so different between countries that |
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> such experience is likely more harmful than useful. |
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Although the Gentoo Foundation is based on the USA it's activities |
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(through the different developers) entail most parts of the world, for |
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example the Gentoo Foundation sponsored the Gentoo project's presence at |
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FOSDEM through the adquisition of give aways for marketing. Having |
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people with knowledge of how other law systems work would be helpful in |
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many ways, on one side by allowing the Foundation help promote |
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activities in other countries, on the other by being able to direct the |
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Foundation if issues to Gentoo developers happen on them. |
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> 3. World political issues. Since trustees need to work within US |
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> law space my Russian citizenship may harm affairs and make things |
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> more complicated for everyone. |
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If this became a problem I'm very positive the rest of trustees would |
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agree on moving the foundation somewhere where the citizenship of our |
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members wouldn't be a problem. Keep in mind that although the Gentoo |
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Foundation is based on the USA, there is no reason (other than statu quo |
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and therefore ease of management) to keep it there. |
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Klondike |
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