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From: Raymond Jennings <shentino@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-nfp <gentoo-nfp@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-nfp] [RFC] Articles of Incorporation change: purpose of the foundation (doesn't mention Gentoo at all!)
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 11:30:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGDaZ_o1W48wujOVEALNNs4ju+qb-XaVKOTepGhN4anJmLnTfQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7461912.cTtmpLYak0@porto>

On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Andreas K. Huettel
<dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> one thing that I have always been wondering about - the purpose of the Gentoo
> Foundation, as defined in the Articles of Incorporation [1] and referenced
> e.g. in the bylaws, does not mention Gentoo at all!
>
> Going by the given text, we could just donate all our money to the Perl
> foundation and all would be good. Or not... This is actually a very strange
> situation, and has been since the initial creation of the foundation.

Very embarrassing oversight.  Good of you to notice it though and
bring it to attention.

> ****
> So... I'd like to hereby kick off the discussion that the purpose of the
> Gentoo Foundation should be specified better in its Articles of Incorporation.
> ****
>
> Whatever conclusion we come to can then be filed as a change request to the NM
> authorities.
>
> Cheers, Andreas
>
>
> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/
> Foundation:Articles_of_Incorporation#Article_III_-_Purpose
>
>
> --
> Andreas K. Hüttel
> dilfridge@gentoo.org
> Gentoo Linux developer
> (council, toolchain, perl, libreoffice, comrel)
>
>
>


  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-02 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-02 17:12 [gentoo-nfp] [RFC] Articles of Incorporation change: purpose of the foundation (doesn't mention Gentoo at all!) Andreas K. Huettel
2018-06-02 18:30 ` Raymond Jennings [this message]
2018-06-02 18:43 ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-03 19:38 ` Matthew Thode
2018-06-04 10:52   ` Roy Bamford

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