Re: [gentoo-project] Re: A plan for Gentoo

[Daniel Robbins]

Hey Matthew,

Oops! I scrolled down to 'Trustee Responsibilities' and missed the whole
infobox at the top of the Trustees page. I am available to the trustees to
help out as needed.

Regarding metastructure, I think we can add thing that do not interfere
with existing processes to do what I'm talking about. It should not require
any changes or overhauls to the current metastructure. It just provides
more of a path of professional growth for the more senior devs.

And yes, the budget goal is orders of magnitude larger than where Gentoo
has been, and agreed on spending it with discipline. But of course, more
funds opens the possibility for new things.

Regards,

Daniel


On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 6:07 PM, Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@g.o>
wrote:

> Snipped down for size, replies inline.
>
> On 17-12-08 16:40:50, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> > Hi Andreas,
> >
> > FWIW, I have applied to be a non-committing Gentoo developer. Zac Medio
> is
> > my mentor, so I will be completing that process. I have interest in being
> > involved in the following roles:
> >
> > 1) Council. I would be happy to participate in council meetings. Just
> know
> > that if I were invited to participate, I would.
> >
> > 2) Trustees. I notice that we only have four trustees. I would be happy
> to
> > serve as the 'fifth Beatle' which would legally obligate me in my role as
> > trustee to represent the interests of the Gentoo Foundation and the
> health
> > of the project, and coordinate with attorneys, etc.
> >
>
> Prety sure there's 5 of us.  At least there were at the last meeting :D
> Here's our up to date info atm. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/
> Foundation:Main_Page
> We run monthly meetings as well.  We don't run closed meetings or
> moderate them too much, so watching one or tactfully speaking in one
> should be
> fine.
>
> > 3) Contributor. I will continue to work with Zac Medico on resolving
> > various obscure Portage bugs (often this is more of an IRC discussion and
> > exploration of possibilities to solve the problem, which results in some
> > kind of definitive plan to address a long-standing bug.) I am also
> planning
> > to work with robbat2 on a genkernel rewrite and am open to other areas of
> > collaboration, both personally and between Gentoo and Funtoo.
> >
>
> Glad to have more eyes and hands on that code, also happy to see you going
> down
> the path of becoming a developer again.
>
> > 4) Metastructure. I would like to start thinking about how to build a
> > positive future for those very senior Gentoo developers who have
> > traditionally experienced burn-out and cynicism.
> >
>
> I'd need to hear more here before commenting, but there was an attempt
> (about
> a year ago, by me even) to try to change the metastructure to be more like
> a
> clasical business (or even a 'tree' structure) instead of our current 'two-
> headed-beast'.  It didn't go so well...
>
> > 5) Fund-raising. I would ideally like to see the Gentoo Foundation have
> an
> > operating budget of around .5M USD. I think this is an achievable goal.
> > This means having a positive vision for Gentoo that we can communicate
> > outwards and that resonates with the world.
> >
>
> I imagine that this is an annual operating budget?  I don't think we've
> recieved
> that much in donations in our lifetime as a distro.  While more money is
> better
> than less, it doesn't mean we should spend it without some dicipline.
>
> > 6) Collaboration. I have some interesting ideas for how we can build
> > win-win relationships with Google, Sony and other organizations that are
> > using Gentoo -- we can do more than we are doing now.
> >
> > 7) Developer. Ongoing work on Portage and genkernel, and other areas.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Daniel
> >
>
> --
> Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)
>