Re: [gentoo-project] William Hubbs council manifesto 2018-2019

[William Hubbs]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 07:48:08PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 4:34 PM William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 02:23:02PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 2:15 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 17/06/18 19:07, Alec Warner wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I really don't think this is true. Its explicitly not true for me. I was a
> > > > trustee because there were open slots and someone had to 'keep the lights
> > > > on.'
> > > > Other people who ran for the board have expressed similar sentiments. I am
> > > > running again in the next election on a platform of dissolution (closing
> > > > the foundation) which is again contrary to your argument. There is no point
> > > > in continuing to run a non-profit that continues to nominally accrue risk
> > > > with little or no upside. Eventually it will become so toxic that you will
> > > > be unable to find anyone to run it (some may say this has already begun to
> > > > happen.) This is evident partially by the board's reduction in numbers.
> > > > Previously the board had 13 seats, then 7, then 5. I'm not superbly
> > > > confident we will be able to fill 5 seats in the next election.
> >
> > Rich, this argument makes no sense.
>
> I didn't write that.  I suspect that somewhere along the way somebody
> messed up their quoting.  That said, I largely agree with the point
> being made (I believe by Alec).
>
> (And to be fair, you did as well in your reply by not trimming the
> rest of the email below your last comment...)  :)

Yes, I basically agree with Alec.

What I meant to say makes no sense was your commentary above, which got
deleted from this some how, about selection bias. That seems to be true
for any elected position -- you have people running for the position who
are interested in having the job. :-)

William