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Sorry my response to this is so late, just now getting caught back up on |
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trustees type stuff. |
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Corey, i like this idea a lot, and i also agree that there should |
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definitly be a removal clause. |
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On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Corey Shields wrote: |
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> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:18:40 -0700 |
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> From: Corey Shields <cshields@g.o> |
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> To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o |
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> Subject: [gentoo-trustees] Re: Item #1000 - Notification of Payment Received |
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> from DeployLinux.Net (sales@×××××××××××.net) |
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> On Friday 12 August 2005 10:58 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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>> | Buyer: DeployLinux.Net |
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>> | Message: I will start making contributions regularly to the foundation |
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>> | as I'm a linux consultant that makes $$ from supporting Gentoo. |
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>> | |
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>> | If you feel like adding my logo to the sponsors page, it is |
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>> | at: http://www.deploylinux.com/images/DeployLinuxLogo2.png |
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>> Do we want to do anything about this? Particularly if "regularly" means |
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>> "often," I think we should. |
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>> Donnie |
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> (background: this came with a $200 donation today, but it is something that |
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> Donnie, myself, Kurt, Lance, and others have been talking about lately) |
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> Donnie, |
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> I was thinking the same thing when I saw this.. Goes back to the lunch |
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> discussion you and I had wrt attribution of donations.. This is going to |
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> become a common thing, and bigger corporate entities will want to do the |
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> same. I did not realize until today that Global Netoptex (the guys who host |
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> owl and were so anxious to host out dev conference today) use Gentoo on an |
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> exclusive basis on all of their gear, with just a couple of exceptions. So, |
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> of course they are eager to give back to Gentoo in any way they can. |
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> I don't know what the "right" answer here is. My inkling is to say let's come |
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> up with corporate memberships within the foundation, where annual membership |
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> dues are required, and you get certain member rights (a vote? use of the |
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> Foundation Membership status). We could have varying such levels and label |
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> them, say $1,000/yr, $5,000/yr, $10,000/yr.. |
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> I could see GenUX needing such a way to contribute back to Gentoo similarly if |
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> they become successful. That is such a situation where it would benefit them |
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> to say that they are a member of the Gentoo Foundation, and they would |
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> naturally want to jump in and support the Foundation's mission because it |
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> will just help them in the end (same holds true for the consultant above). |
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> Of course, it has been too long since I have looked at the bylaws, but such |
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> membership should come with a removal clause that xx number of member votes |
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> (which might be tough), or a board vote, could revoke membership. Thus, if |
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> someone buys their way in and ends up misusing privileges they get canned. |
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> This is very similar to the way I understand the Eclipse Foundation working, |
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> only on a much larger scale ($250,000 plus 8 full time developers for |
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> membership.. yeah..). |
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> -C |
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