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On 17-07-12 19:24:33, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> |
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> On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:53:54 +0200 Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera |
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> (klondike) wrote: |
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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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> > > |
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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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> I can't even open this URL using Russian IP, they seems to be |
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> blocked. This answers pretty much my concerns. I can open it |
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> through both Tor and proxies in other countries, of course. |
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> I don't know what entity is blocking connections, but my research |
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> shows that blocking is definitely country-based: different cities, |
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> ISP's ip's with the same result. In Russia there is a censorship |
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> present, but the register of blocked resources is publicly |
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> available for queries and provided URL, domain name and its IP |
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> address are not listed there. So at least officially this site is |
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> not blocked in Russia. |
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> I'm not 100% sure that Russian IPs are blocked in US to access some |
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> US national resources, but it is possible. |
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iirc, others have had problems there too, I think they may be blocking |
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non-US IPs entirely. |
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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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> > |
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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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> We are living in the world far from ideal and as Rich pointed out |
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> there are good reasons to keep the Foundation in the US. I just |
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> don't want to cause troubles where it can be avoided. |
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> Best regards, |
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> Andrew Savchenko |
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