Re: [gentoo-project] Foundation membership and who can join

[Matthew Thode]

On 10/13/2016 07:53 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 7:44 PM, NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@g.o> wrote:
>> The proposal does not make all members Gentoo staff.
>
> Then, IMO, it isn't an improvement.  Certainly my intent was for it to
> make all Foundation members Gentoo staff.
>
> I think that all Foundation members should be staff, and all staff
> should be Foundation members.  If somebody isn't qualified to be in
> one, they shouldn't be in the other.  If somebody doesn't want to be
> in one, they shouldn't be in the other.
>
> I'm not suggesting that there should be some kind of onerous
> requirement to be staff.
>
> I think one of the biggest problems that you need to solve if you want
> to try to reform the meta-structure is that we have multiple
> constituencies right now.  My goal would be to fix that.  If somebody
> isn't active enough to be considered staff, then they shouldn't be
> voting on the governance of the distro.  If they're going to be voting
> on governance, then they should be well-versed in how things work.
>

It was my intention that all foundation members be staff as well, I'll
amend it and re-reply as a new base sub-thread.

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-- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)