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On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 12:07 PM Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> On 2021-05-01 17:14, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> > There's rumors going around that Agostino's tinderbox basically |
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> > already burned through our entire 2021 AWS Open Source credit budget |
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> > and has overdrawn it significantly. |
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> > Independent of whether this rumor is true or not, I would like to |
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> > discuss |
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> > * how we can avoid such a situation in the future, |
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> > * and how we can fairly handle the distribution of limited infra |
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> > resources that may end up costing us money |
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> Is this really a topic for council? |
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> Isn't foundation an independent body and if someone requests funding |
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> from foundation and will get it approved... |
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> Or in other words: Can council veto against funding requests the |
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> foundation received and wants to approve? |
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> If not, I really see nothing to discuss for council and non-foundation |
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> members. It's their money... |
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I tend to say the same thing every year[0] but I will repeat what I |
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wrote in my 2020 president's letter[1] |
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Thirdly, I want to discuss the spending of Gentoo Foundation’s capital. We |
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end fiscal 2020 with an excess of $140,000 in cash equivalents (cash on |
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hand, paypal, etc.) This is a significant pile of capital that we could |
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deploy in support of the Gentoo community. In the past, the board was |
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essentially unwilling to spend large amounts of capital due to the unknown |
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tax liabilities that the Foundation faced in previous years. However since |
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we have since resolved those liabilities we are in a stronger position to |
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fund new programs. However, it’s unclear exactly how we should deploy this |
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capital. I again implore the community to suggest ways that the money can |
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be put to good use in order to facilitate the mission of Gentoo and to |
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further its development. |
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The foundation is nominally prohibited from spending money itself (as |
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doing so may 'set the direction of gentoo development' or otherwise |
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have undue influence on the project.) The Foundation relies on people |
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to file funding requests; the Foundation itself only has 3 programs: |
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Infrastructure (to fund Gentoo infrastructure operations), Nitrokey |
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(to fund keys for developers) and Foundation Operations (almost all of |
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this to pay for our CPA and fees necessary to operate the Foundation. |
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Please file funding requests if you want things funded. If you think |
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we should work with the council to decide what things to fund I'm |
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happy to discuss with them any and all items. |
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-A |
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[0] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/f86654c9350cceecdec7fda93cb27aca |
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[1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-nfp/message/a5bc711fddc853cb8344c8dfd1337b3a |
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> Regards, |
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> Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer |
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