From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EtvQ0-0000G7-3c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:18:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k03NHQuK012427; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 23:17:26 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k03NFMmw028289 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 23:15:23 GMT Received: from bmb24.med.uth.tmc.edu ([129.106.207.24] helo=localhost) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1EtvNC-0006ex-Ec for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:15:22 +0000 Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 17:15:22 -0600 From: Grant Goodyear To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January Message-ID: <20060103231522.GC26910@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <200601011053.k01ArjOh019213@robin.gentoo.org> <43B96D6D.8080107@gentoo.org> <1136226795.8779.10.camel@localhost> <43B975FD.1000401@gentoo.org> <1136228634.23404.125.camel@localhost> <1136230095.8779.32.camel@localhost> <43BAB220.1030601@gentoo.org> <43BAB438.8000301@gentoo.org> <1136312226.27358.59.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uZ3hkaAS1mZxFaxD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1136312226.27358.59.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 821a7637-7409-4ade-8b54-cc9781637b35 X-Archives-Hash: 656ff82d5a516d0f18450775ea954601 --uZ3hkaAS1mZxFaxD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Chris Gianelloni wrote: [Tue Jan 03 2006, 12:17:06PM CST] > I think part of the problem is that many people are forgetting exactly > what Gentoo really is. Gentoo is not a distribution of Linux. Gentoo > is not anything more than a loosely bound group of developers all doing > their own thing in a collaborative and collective manner. You cannot > use corporate thinking to manage such a beast. We don't have mission > statements. We don't have road maps. We don't have quarterly earnings > and market projections. We simply exist. The only way we can give > Gentoo a direction is by restricting what we, as developers, are allowed > to do. The only real restrictions we have right now are "be civil" and > "don't break stuff". Anything beyond that is inhibiting one of our > greatest strengths, our individuality and individual ideas. [remainder snipped] Well, that was said much better than I managed. -g2boojum- --=20 Grant Goodyear=09 Gentoo Developer g2boojum@gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 --uZ3hkaAS1mZxFaxD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDuwWKptxxUuD2W3YRAoIgAJ0TZDaHiL8rJceKYVnI++4q7eLTLACcDRGJ sY4vBeBPao7MPe9ydQeIAck= =2w2O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uZ3hkaAS1mZxFaxD-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list