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On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 9:53 AM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org> wrote: |
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> Foundation |
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> Legal entity |
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> Deals with finance |
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> Deals with compliance |
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> Provides Infra |
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> Provides/oversees Staff |
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> Council |
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> Fulfils aim of Linux Distribution |
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> Oversees projects |
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> Innovates and develops |
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> Both are Foundation and Council are elected bodies from the staff |
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> electorate. |
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> Anyone with any objections to this structure? |
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IMO it would make more sense to limit the Foundation to things that |
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require a legal entity to provide, such as finance, IP, etc. I don't |
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think it should be running Infra or administering staff. And I'm not |
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entirely convinced that having an independent Foundation is even the |
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best way of dealing with financial issues as most other distros seem |
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to be moving away from this (if they're not run by a big corporation |
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already). If we joined SPI like Debian/Arch/Freedesktop/etc then we |
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wouldn't need to have anybody dealing with most of the details |
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finance/compliance/etc, we would just need to tell them when we need |
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bills paid and so on. That could be a special project but with a lot |
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less manpower required than what the Trustees currently have to deal |
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with. |
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I'd also comment that innovation and development is the responsibility |
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of all of our contributors. I don't think that the role of a Council |
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member should be seen as some kind of prize for being the most |
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innovative/etc. Sure, they should have the general respect of the |
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community, but it is a role like any other with its own set of |
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necessary skills/etc. |
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Ultimately though I think it is helpful to have one group of people |
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who cast votes and decide what we ought to be doing, and one set of |
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representatives elected by this group of voters, so that we don't have |
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debates between multiple governance bodies that all believe they have |
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a mandate. |
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Rich |