Re: [gentoo-project] Looking for ways the Foundation can accomplish its mission.

[Michał Górny]

On Thu, 2018-09-06 at 10:22 -0500, Matthew Thode wrote:
> On 18-09-06 08:47:05, Alec Warner wrote:
> > Dear Gentoo Community,
> >
> > I have recently become the President of the Gentoo Foundation Inc. The
> > Foundation's documents[0] provide fairly terse guidance on how the
> > Foundation is to be operated. The Foundation currently provides funding for
> > Gentoo Infrastructure, and very little else. Part of my job as President is
> > to determine what additional activities the Foundation can pursue (if any);
> > and to determine how the Foundation can improve Gentoo by investing in
> > infrastructure, while still meeting the spirit of the other restrictions on
> > Foundation activities[1]. So community, how do you think the Foundation can
> > assist the development of Gentoo?
> >
> > Some ideas might be:
> >  - Host a Gentoo Conference.
> >  - Host a bug-bounty program.
> >  - Fund talks about Gentoo development activities at industry conferences.
> >  - Invest significantly in Infrastructure spending to fund ambitious
> > projects.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Alec
> > President, Gentoo Foundation Inc.
> >
> > [0]
> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Main_Page#Tasks_of_the_Gentoo_Foundation
> > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Main_Page#Gentoo_is_independent
>
> One idea I had infra-wise was to expand the idea of our devspace.
> Increase the footprint of our virtualizatoin infra and (on request) give
> devs a VM for dev work.  Possibly even do some arm64 or ppc64 work there
> too.  Beyond that, running a binhost may be an idea, get people
> bootstrapped faster.
>
> I do agree with K_F in that targeting existing confrences would be nice.
> I think the two we'd have the most luck in would be fosdem scale.
>
> A bug bounty program sounds neat, we could take input on bugs to target
> from council I think.  (I personally would like to work on make gentoo
> better support openstack-ansible :D).
>

It would be nice to also have an official way to quickly start off full
up-to-date system images, possibly in multiple variants.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny