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

[Daniel Robbins]

Hey Raymond,

Yes, the love of Gentoo is what we should be focusing on! Gentoo is an
amazing distro and community -- our passion should fuel us to think big and
set some ambitious goals for the future. Our concern for our senior
contributors should motivate us to make sure that they get as much benefit
as possible from their involvement with Gentoo and continued to be both
challenged and supported. Like you point out, often people will 'graduate'
to a full-time job related to Gentoo in some way. I would like to explore
the possibility of building these bridges with internships and other
collaborative activities with Google, Sony and others.

-Daniel

On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com>
wrote:

> Speaking as someone who has had a less than stellar ride on the
> recruiting process, but who somehow managed to get foundation
> membership due to non-code and non-ebuild related contributions, as
> well as a patch in the linux kernel.
>
> I LOVE gentoo, as a user.  I have been an avid gentoo user ever since
> a friend of mine told me about.
>
> The control over my machine, nothing hard coded, nothing getting in my
> way when I need to tell my computer what to do and how to do it.  Of
> course, it doesn't much save me when I shoot myself in the foot, but
> honestly, I'd rather do that than have stuff hard-coded that I can't
> change.
>
> I love being able to set my machine up the way I need it, and it's
> proving to, perhaps on topic further, serve as the foundation of a
> growing file the recruiters at google are building on me as a
> potential candidate.  Gentoo might actually help me get a job if it
> continues to give me an education on software engineering and system
> administration.  Would be a welcome upgrade to my life of being a
> disabled "basement dweller"
>
> And Gentoo actually inspired me in a way to get my computer and
> networking gear hooked up to a UPS device...which actually saved my
> family from some otherwise intense grief during a power failure when I
> was able to use my UPS powered internet connection to look up the
> power company's phone number.
>
> Using x11vnc (encrypted, and through a SSH tunnel) also gave me some
> hands on practice at remote system administration, using my own gentoo
> powered desktop as a guinea pig and my android phone from afar across
> the cloud to get back into my machine...and then putting up a tunnel
> after noticing some alien IPs were pinging my x11vnc server :P.
>
> All in all, Gentoo has been an EXTREMELY positive influence in my
> life, both personally, hobby wise, and hopefully a solid base going
> forward if/when my career gets started as a software engineer.
>
> So whatever it takes to keep Gentoo being the most awesome linux
> distro I have seen yet, has my approval.  I joined the foundation for
> a reason.
>
> Speaking of which, what would the trustees of the foundation say about
> this conversation?  I'm assuming that they're designed to be more than
> asset monkeys.
>
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Christopher Díaz Riveros
> <chrisadr@g.o> wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > El mié, 06-12-2017 a las 09:53 -0700, Daniel Robbins escribió:
> >>   3. I will continue to work with members of the Gentoo dev team on
> >> various development-related projects. If, for running for council, I
> >> am required to be a Gentoo developer, I can go through the
> >> recruitment process. However, I am frankly happy working with Gentoo
> >> developers as I am doing now and I feel like it is less likely to
> >> cause problems if I do NOT have direct commit access to Gentoo repos.
> >> So maybe the council could vote an exception to my need to have
> >> access to the Gentoo repos. I think this would make it easier for
> >> everyone -- people would not need to worry that I would subvert
> >> existing processes. And I see no reason why I need direct commit
> >> access.
> >>
> >
> > Just to mention that if that's the case you can always take the non-
> > commit developer quiz [1]. That way you'll meet all the requirements in
> > the election rules. And it's a good way to refresh all the basic
> > knowledge about the procedures and structure.
> >
> >> intention to run for council. Then hopefully we can focus on bigger
> >> issues like actually making Gentoo better and more fun :)
> >>
> >> Let me know what you think.
> >>
> >
> > Personally I like the idea of Gentoo and Funtoo having more
> > collaboration among each other, and I think that the primary goal is
> > and always will be to make Gentoo better.
> >
> >
> > [1]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Recruiters/Quiz#Quiz_selectio
> > n_2
> >
> > Best regards,
> > --
> > Christopher Díaz Riveros
> > Gentoo Linux Developer
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