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

[Matthew Thode]

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).

-- 
Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)