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On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 1:55:37 PM EST Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> Looking at our developer map this seems incredibly impractical. I |
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> know I've yet to actually bump into another Gentoo developer. |
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Despite the question of my social skills, I have met several in person at |
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Linux World Expo. When manning the Gentoo booth, representing Gentoo, and also |
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just attending. Why I take issue when others who have not met me in person |
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question my social skills.... More so if they have not met other devs... |
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GPG key signing was something we did then, at least one year. |
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Not sure if we did it every year, or routinely. We did it by exchanging IDs |
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(fake or real?) at least we attempted to prove the person was who they said |
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they were in person. Then did the signing thing. |
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> Sure, I |
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> could fly out to SCALE or FOSDEM (which are about equidistant), but |
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> this seems a bit much for a requirement, even if I'm likely to get |
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> around to it one of these years. |
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Ideally Gentoo has its own conference, though location would be hard. Not sure |
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if that is more practical than trying to gather at an existing. It was |
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something I was interested in when I was a trustee. Though would face the same |
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geographic issues on what location would be central to all, if any. |
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I also had thoughts of helping to provide funds for travel to developers, and |
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in a utopian world also provide development gear, laptop, etc. Gentoo being a |
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501c6 like the NFL was, and PGA Tour. The PGA Tour provides laptops to |
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members, Tiger Woods etc. Gentoo could be doing the same with proper |
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organization, and a functional foundation. |
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So many things are possible with proper organization, leadership, and a strong |
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foundation.... |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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