Re: [gentoo-project] Foundation meeting agenda for April 2018

[Matthew Thode]

On 18-04-09 10:23:53, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Am Montag, 9. April 2018, 02:11:19 CEST schrieb zlg:
> > >   We request that the Gentoo Council and the Board of Trustees of the
> > >   Gentoo
> > >   Foundation affirm Gentoo's metastructure GLEP 39 as the governing
> > >   principle
> > >   of the Gentoo Linux developer community. In particular, both acknowledge
> > >   the split between
> > >
> > >     - the Gentoo Council, which is responsible for the Gentoo Linux
> > >     developer
> > >
> > >       community, its user base and all technical decisions,
> > >
> > >     - and the Gentoo Foundation, whose role is to hold Gentoo's assets
> > >
> > >       (such as trademarks and server infrastructure) and support the
> > >       developer
> > >       and user community.
>
> [snip]
> > To the Council:
> >
> > What makes you accountable to this community? Why should we trust or
> > respect you when you have nothing on the line except a title? What
> > happens next if these affirmations are made? What's your angle, your
> > real motivation?
>
>
> This proposal describes precisely
> * how I was taught "Gentoo works" for my quizzes sometime around 2010
You could have been taught wrong
> * how the cooperation and separation of responsibilities between council and
> foundation worked for the years since then
Just means it's been disfunctional for years
> * and what was the basis of understanding for council and trustees elections
>
> Thus, we are asking for an affirmation of the status quo, nothing else.
What you believe the status quo to be (even if that status quo may or
may not be wrong).
>

In any case, please make individual requests to the NFP list, that is
where discussion should be happening.  Mail on the project list is not
valid in the context of the foundation (making requests).  This thread
is already going to be impossible to go though, looking for items.  One
topic per thread, if you wish to amend the topic, do so, but take
sidebar discussions to another thread.

-- 
Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)