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On 2009.11.24 02:47, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: |
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> Roy Bamford wrote: |
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> > All, |
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> > The Gentoo Foundation Inc. has been approached by a few large |
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> > Gentoo users about purchasing advertising on the gentoo.org side |
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> > bar. They are not in the IT industry so cannot support us in the |
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> > traditional way, by donating their own product. |
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> > The trustees anticipate that more approaches of this nature will be |
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> > received and view it as a sign of Gentoo maturing. |
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> > Recognising that this would be a break with tradition, by allowing |
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> > even major users to contribute to Gentoo in this way the trustees |
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> > determined to put the question to a vote of Foundation members. |
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> > The recording date for the vote will be 29th November. To vote, |
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> > your Foundation membership must be approved on or before that date. |
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> > Voting will be from 1 December to 11 December, to enable the result |
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> > to be available for the next Trustee meeting on 13 December. |
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> > The motion to be voted on will be Should major Gentoo users be |
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> > permitted to purchase ads on the sidebar - Vote yes or No |
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> Roy, |
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> are there any "limits" to the type of advertisements that the |
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> Foundation will permit? I expect that the Trustees will do some |
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> filtering regardless, but are we going to create a "policy" on the |
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> type of advertisements that are to be permitted? |
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The intention is to leave that to the trustees to determine on a case |
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by case basis. A present, we only have applications from companies in |
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the Financial sector who use Gentoo for their operations, so there |
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will be little or no immediate change. We already have such a side bar |
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advert from a Financial company that donates in the conventional way. |
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> > The trustees recommend that the motion on the ballot is supported. |
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> > On behalf of the Gentoo Foundation Inc. |
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> Although I consider this to be a significant change, I hope it won't |
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> affect Gentoo's spirit, that it may help foster support for Gentoo |
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> and |
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> that we can make the best use of these resources for our community. |
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I think it is a case of companies who have benefited from Gentoo |
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wanting to give something back in a way that benefits both parties. We |
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really need to make this sort of thing easier for them. That's what |
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the vote is about. |
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It won't change Gentoos spirit - Gentoo will continue to be a community |
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distro. It will make more resources available to allow the Foundation |
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to help Gentoo grow. |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org |
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> Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE |
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Foundation resources will continue to be available in the way they are |
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now. By application to the trustees. |
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Regards, |
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Roy Bamford |
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(Neddyseagoon) an member of |
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gentoo-ops |
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forum-mods |
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trustees |