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On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 9:36 AM Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 08:47:05 -0400 Alec Warner wrote: |
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> > Dear Gentoo Community, |
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> > I have recently become the President of the Gentoo Foundation Inc. The |
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> > Foundation's documents[0] provide fairly terse guidance on how the |
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> > Foundation is to be operated. The Foundation currently provides funding |
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> > Gentoo Infrastructure, and very little else. Part of my job as President |
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> > to determine what additional activities the Foundation can pursue (if |
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> any); |
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> > and to determine how the Foundation can improve Gentoo by investing in |
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> > infrastructure, while still meeting the spirit of the other restrictions |
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> on |
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> > Foundation activities[1]. So community, how do you think the Foundation |
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> can |
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> > assist the development of Gentoo? |
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> > Some ideas might be: |
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> > - Host a Gentoo Conference. |
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> > - Host a bug-bounty program. |
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> > - Fund talks about Gentoo development activities at industry |
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> conferences. |
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> > - Invest significantly in Infrastructure spending to fund ambitious |
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> > projects. |
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> First and foremost the Foundation should focus on its primary |
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> goal: funding, its financial accounting and becoming non for profit |
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> organization. |
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> Current state of the Foundation's bookkeeping is concerning: we have |
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> not seen final annual financial report for years. Good news that |
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> finally preliminary reports are published (thanks robbat2!), but |
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> they are not final and there is still a lot of work to do. |
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> Tax status is unclear (it was discussed earlier that the Foundation |
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> may have to pay quite sufficient tax as a penalty for lousy |
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> accounting). |
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> And the Foundation still lacks non for profit official status. |
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> Lack of human resources is a long-standing problem for the |
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> Foundation and embracing more goals while failing with the critical |
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> ones is an unwise idea. |
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First off, I 100% agree we should do the financial accounting. Consider it |
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my first priority. |
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Regarding the funding; the main thrust of this thread is basically deciding |
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how much funding is enough; We have a bunch of money. Its expected that |
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post-finance cleanup we will still have money leftover; and we don't spend |
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very much money today. So given that, what could we spend money on? How |
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could the foundation put its funds to good use in its mission? That is the |
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question I'm trying to get input on; I think the answer in many ways |
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impacts what kind of financial plan we have for the Foundation in 2019 / |
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2020. |
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The foundation is already a not-for-profit organization. Did you perhaps |
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mean a *tax-exempt* not for profit, and if so, why do you think we should |
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be a tax-exempt nonprofit? |
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-A |
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> Best regards, |
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> Andrew Savchenko |
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> Best regards, |
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> Andrew Savchenko |
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