Re: [gentoo-project] Foundation membership and who can join

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 14 października 2016 06:37:07 CEST, Nick Vinson <nvinson234@×××××.com> napisał(a):
>
>
>On 10/13/2016 06:06 PM, Matthew Thode wrote:
>> Some definitions
>> - All devs are staff
>> - All staff are foundation members
>> - All foundation members are staff
>> - All foundation members are voting
>> - You can be staff without being a dev (forum, bugs, irc)
>> - Foundation membership is automatically revoked if you miss two
>> Foundation elections (not sure if this needs to change)
>>
>> Proposal
>> - All prospective staff must apply to be Foundation members, allowing
>> for final approval by the trustees as is the current policy.  Anyone
>not
>> accepted will not be given staff membership.
>> - Any Foundation membership granted as a result of a staff position
>is
>> lost when the position as staff is concluded.
>>   - Any staff that is kicked or leaves during a ComRel incident may
>> appeal their incident with the appropriate body.  They will either
>> retain or lose both staff and foundation membership simultaneously.
>>
>> Knock on effects
>> - May need to modify staff quiz.  Developers already take this so
>will
>> automatically satisfy this requirement.  Positive CoC acknowledgement
>> should be included in the staff quiz.
>> - By equating staff and Foundation membership we may have to change
>the
>> retirement criteria for staff.
>> - Staff will have to vote in Foundation elections.
>> - Staffers who are not devs do not belong to a project
>>   - projects could be made
>>
>> Questions
>> - Do staff get gentoo.org email addresses?
>>   - I do not think it’s necessary
>>  (limits our liability (email addresses could be considered as
>loosing
>> property rights as mentioned elsewhere in one of these threads...),
>maybe)
>
>I don't think so (but not a lawyer).  Otherwise, you wouldn't see
>companies assigning email addresses to their employees with the company
>domain.
>
>That said, it might be nice if you could use the email addresses to
>figure out who you're talking to at first glance.  Something like:
>
>.staff.getnoo.org -- general staff member
>.dev.gentoo.org -- gentoo developer
>.trustee.gentoo.org -- gentoo trustee
>.councilor.gentoo.org -- gentoo council member

And you suddenly invalidate the email on next election?

>
>etc.
>
>Plese note that I'm not suggesting each project get its own subdomain.
>Just a few "key" top-level entities / groups inside Gentoo.
>>


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Best regards,
Michał Górny (by phone)