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On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 11:41 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. |
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<wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Friday, January 6, 2017 11:24:15 AM EST Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 10:57 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. |
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>> <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > On Friday, January 6, 2017 1:10:48 PM EST Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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>> >> * The electorate lists for the "council" or "board" are handled by |
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>> >> ourselves, and do not require membership of any legal body. |
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>> > Again you have to have something legal to protect the name and other IP. |
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>> > There is no getting around that period. |
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>> I think the thing you missed in this and most of your other replies to |
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>> his email is that this would be the results of dissolving the |
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>> Foundation and transferring its assets to SPI or a similar |
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>> organization. |
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> I think you all are missing my experience and research into this matter. |
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> Again go look into -nfp archives. You will find a pretty in depth discussion |
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> with lots of details you all are seeking to revisit. Learn from the past or |
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> repeat your choice. |
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I'm well-aware. When I was a Trustee it was one of the topics being |
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tossed around. |
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>> To avoid a second email, the issue of the single liaison may have been |
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>> resolved by Debian, and we would need to follow-up to confirm. |
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> I spoke with the SPI as a trustee before... Has anyone else discussing this? |
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Obviously it would need to be discussed with them. |
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> One thing you also are all not realizing. |
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Not saying everything you know in an email is not the same as not |
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realizing. It is called brevity. |
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> You apply for the SPI and must be |
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> accepted. It is not a guarantee. Gentoo would need a backup plan if it was not |
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> accepted. Given the issues with the IRS I am not sure if Gentoo would be |
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> approved. They would have tremendous work potentially. It is not like the |
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> house is in order and asking them to simply take over. |
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I'm sure this stuff would need to be cleaned up if we turned it over. |
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Presumably we'd do that once a path forward is agreed upon, perhaps |
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with professional help assuming it could be afforded. |
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Doing a one-time cleanup is a different project than establishing an |
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organization that can run itself indefinitely. Each has its pros and |
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cons. |
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Rich |
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