From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
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 14:43:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_=vN_Nf1+OxcHCAwKZLomFS-EvCD0HTtP1ayxbeR8Nw0w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7461912.cTtmpLYak0@porto>
On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 1:12 PM Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> 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!
>
I imagine it is because the people who wrote it didn't conceive of a
Gentoo separate from the Foundation. The Articles describe what
Gentoo does, though in an incredibly vague/general way (presumably to
allow latitude in its operations).
It wouldn't be a bad design but for the fact that many don't want to
have anything to do with the governance/operation of the Foundation,
for various reasons, which ends up creating a bit of a split
direction.
I'm not sure that adding some detail around Gentoo being a project
associated with a Linux distribution would actually fix the
fundamental issues, but I don't really see us ever moving away from
that.
--
Rich
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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
2018-06-02 18:43 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2018-06-03 19:38 ` Matthew Thode
2018-06-04 10:52 ` Roy Bamford
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