Gentoo Archives: gentoo-nfp

From: Michael Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org>
To: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Questions For Gentoo Foundation Trustee Candidates
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 13:51:17
Message-Id: 7617c609-b265-90bb-c085-108e7fd8116c@iee.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Questions For Gentoo Foundation Trustee Candidates by "Michał Górny"
1 On 13/07/19 14:39, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Sat, 2019-07-13 at 06:17 -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote:
3 >> What are your plans regarding future relations between the trustees and the
4 >> council? I noted that the council isn't even mentioned in the bylaws
5 > I've answered this in detail in my Manifesto [1].
6 >
7 > Long story short, I believe the distribution should be self-governing,
8 > and Foundation should support it without interfering unnecessarily.
9 > This means that Council makes the majority of the decisions regarding
10 > Gentoo, and Trustees should work with the Council and respect
11 > the decisions made by it.
12 >
13 > [1] https://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/trustee-manifesto-2019.txt
14 >
15 The Gentoo distribution is already self-governing, but by choice, those
16 that choose governance are absolving themselves of the legal, financial and
17 other obligations that come with that by failing to serve on the one
18 outside-recognised body the Gentoo Foundation Inc.
19
20 I fail to see how an umbrella organisation would willingly choose to be
21 responsible for such a team of ... human liabilities ..

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