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On Thursday, October 13, 2016 12:28:56 PM EDT Raymond Jennings wrote: |
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> I disagree with this part. |
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> People should not be required in my opinion to be staff in order to have |
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> membership in the foundation. |
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Agreed, "outsiders" should have means for membership. |
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> There may be people who don't know how to be staff, or can't be arsed to |
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> learn, or whatever the case may be have problems being staff, but who still |
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> love gentoo and help however they can. |
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Unless it has or does change, the idea behind the present By Laws and outside |
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membership was via application to the trustees. Not that there is any Gentoo |
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Foundation membership form/application or formal process. |
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The idea was simply if any person/entity could show merit to the Trustees and |
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justify membership. The trustees could approve or deny their application. In |
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theory they would contribute via some means, ebuilds, bugs, resources, etc. |
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In a grand sense some foundation members would be representatives of |
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businesses with interest in Gentoo. Kind of like how Gnome and other projects |
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have involvement, but not a Advisory board per se, just members. |
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https://wiki.gnome.org/AdvisoryBoard |
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Any member only has 1 vote, no way to influence a vote over all. Would take |
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allot of outsiders, approved by Trustees to cause any problems. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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