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On Wed, Jan 11, 2017, at 10:56 CST, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> I suspect one problem might be: |
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> 1) Most developers are not interested in Foundation affairs. |
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> 2) The Foundation is often minimally staffed with enough members (to vote) |
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> and trustees (to run the foundation legally.) |
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> 3) In the past, the Foundation failed to renew its New Mexico filing (which |
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> was fixed later.) |
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> 4) The status of the Foundation with regards to the US tax organ (the IRS) |
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> is decidedly unclear at this time (but its being worked on.) |
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> So there is some concern that the Foundation is not being run well in the |
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> current system. Keeping the current system is worrisome (as a current |
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> trustee, I certainly worry about it!) This is one reason why I think the |
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> status quo is a bad idea. |
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But if *that* is the problem, it would be the logical step to disband |
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the Foundation and simply transfer assets to SPI [1,2], which is done |
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quite successfully by a number of important open source projects |
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including Linux distributions Arch and Debian. |
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Best, |
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Matthias |
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[1] http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/ |
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[2] http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/relationship/ |
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