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Hi |
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I've started again on writing the Gentoo Foundation Charter. As said before, |
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it is not meant to be a by-law or anything but rather a human-understandable |
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document explaining why the Gentoo Foundation exists, the principles it will |
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keep in mind, the tasks and a bit about the board of trustees. |
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Until now I've drafted the first two chapters ("Introduction" and |
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"Principles of the Gentoo Foundation"). The next two chapters still need |
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decisions on our part: |
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- How will we protect our assets? What measures can (and will) we take? |
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- How will the financial contributions/revenues be divided? |
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- How will we advise Gentoo's development when it's drifting away from the |
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social contract (not that I think this will ever happen) |
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- Will we be a Point of Contact for corporations/organisations? |
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- What is the definition of a Gentoo Developer? |
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- What elections (how, when, where, ...) will be held? |
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- What are the responsibilities (after having decided all the previous |
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things)? |
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You can find the current document on |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/charter.html; if you want I can put it in CVS |
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somewhere. |
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There are many questions to be resolved so apart from the paperwork |
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bureaucracy we will also need some discussions pertaining to the above. |
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One question that has been sitting in my INBOX for quite some time now: how |
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do we permit the use of the Gentoo logo outside Gentoo's development? For |
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instance, people are asking to use our logo in screenshots for inclusion on |
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theme websites or for use on their website (as "support" and to say they're |
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proud of being a Gentoo user). Companies are asking permission to have our |
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logo on their products, etc. |
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Perhaps I should start a separate thread for that one :) |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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-- |
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Bent Hindrup Andersen, Danish MEP, about the Software Patent Directive: |
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The approach of the Commission and Council in this directive is shocking. |
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They are making full use of all the possibilities of evading democracy that |
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the current Community Law provides. <http://lwn.net/Articles/84009/> |
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