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From: Virgil Dupras <hsoft@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Foundation meeting agenda for April 2018
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 03:42:41
Message-Id: 20180408234201.bb047370d97e4b6d73594d5d@hardcoded.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Foundation meeting agenda for April 2018 by zlg
1 On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 20:29:27 -0700
2 zlg <zlg@g.o> wrote:
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4 > Why should a group -- who holds no legal, social, or practical
5 > responsibility -- be trusted to lead the efforts of an organization?
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7 Since Gentoo's CoC is strongly based on Debian, maybe we could look at Debian's constitution for clues on this and ask ourselves why it says in section 9 [1]:
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9 > An organisation holding assets for Debian has no authority regarding
10 > Debian's technical or nontechnical decisions, except that no decision
11 > by Debian with respect to any property held by the organisation shall
12 > require it to act outside its legal authority.
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14 Maybe that this type of separation of concerns worked well for them? Maybe it can work well for Gentoo?
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16 Regards,
17 Virgil Dupras
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19 [1] https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-9

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