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

[Matthew Thode]

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
>

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Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)