[gentoo-dev] Trustees Announcement

[gentoo-dev] Trustees Announcement

[Seemant Kulleen]

Dear All,

Trustees voting did actually finish over a month ago.  It's high time
for the official announcement.  This year's Board of Trustees for the
Gentoo Foundation has been reduced to 5 people, instead of 13.  That was
something we wanted a vote on, in addition to the regular board,
however, only 5 people were nominated.  Thus, they formed the new board:

I present to you, then, the new Board of Trustees:

Chris Gianelloni (wolf31o2)
Grant Goodyear (g2boojum)
Stuart Herbert (stuart)
Seemant Kulleen (seemant)
Renat Lumpau (rl03)

We will schedule the first Board Meeting for this year, for sometime
this month, hopefully.

Please note that the board is 60% new, so please do welcome the new
members.

Thanks!
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustees Announcement

[Mike Doty]

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Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Trustees voting did actually finish over a month ago.  It's high time
> for the official announcement.  This year's Board of Trustees for the
> Gentoo Foundation has been reduced to 5 people, instead of 13.  That was
> something we wanted a vote on, in addition to the regular board,
> however, only 5 people were nominated.  Thus, they formed the new board:
> 
> I present to you, then, the new Board of Trustees:
> 
> Chris Gianelloni (wolf31o2)
> Grant Goodyear (g2boojum)
> Stuart Herbert (stuart)
> Seemant Kulleen (seemant)
> Renat Lumpau (rl03)
> 
> We will schedule the first Board Meeting for this year, for sometime
> this month, hopefully.
> 
> Please note that the board is 60% new, so please do welcome the new
> members.
> 
> Thanks!
What vote?  I don't remember one.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustees Announcement

[Seemant Kulleen]

There wasn't a vote, since the number of nominations equalled the number
of candidates.  There was a thread on gentoo-core mailing list with the
nominees, and the movement seemed to be toward simply accepting the
nominees as trustees.

Thanks,
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustees Announcement

[Donnie Berkholz]

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Mike Doty wrote:
> What vote?  I don't remember one.

5 nominees, 5 positions. Did you want a popularity contest among them?

Thanks,
Donnie


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustees Announcement

[Stephen P. Becker]

Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Mike Doty wrote:
>> What vote?  I don't remember one.
> 
> 5 nominees, 5 positions. Did you want a popularity contest among them?

Hmm, wasn't there some sort of question as to whether or not simply
accepting them was valid under current policy?  I seem to recall that
somebody was going to look into this, but I could also be totally
smoking chriswhite's rainbow neon crack rock.

-Steve
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustees Announcement

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:08:22 -0700 Donnie Berkholz
<dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
| Mike Doty wrote:
| > What vote?  I don't remember one.
| 
| 5 nominees, 5 positions. Did you want a popularity contest among them?

A Debian-style "reopen nominations" option with a vote would make more
sense...

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustees Announcement

[Seemant Kulleen]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 18:17 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:08:22 -0700 Donnie Berkholz
> <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
> | Mike Doty wrote:
> | > What vote?  I don't remember one.
> | 
> | 5 nominees, 5 positions. Did you want a popularity contest among them?
> 
> A Debian-style "reopen nominations" option with a vote would make more
> sense...
> 

I wouldn't oppose this at all if that's what the foundation members
want.  However, this issue has languished on -core precisely due to
non-interest.  So if you can rile up the people to rise up and demand
this, or something, you'll definitely impress with me :)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustees Announcement

[Stephen P. Becker]

Stephen P. Becker wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> Mike Doty wrote:
>>> What vote?  I don't remember one.
>> 5 nominees, 5 positions. Did you want a popularity contest among them?
> 
> Hmm, wasn't there some sort of question as to whether or not simply
> accepting them was valid under current policy?  I seem to recall that
> somebody was going to look into this, but I could also be totally
> smoking chriswhite's rainbow neon crack rock.

I just remembered something.  Didn't Stuart say that he planned on
leaving Gentoo when he was nominated for the Council recently (and
declined)?

-Steve

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustees Announcement

[Stuart Herbert]

On 9/5/06, Stephen P. Becker <geoman@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I just remembered something.  Didn't Stuart say that he planned on
> leaving Gentoo when he was nominated for the Council recently (and
> declined)?

Yes I did.  There are a few things I want to achieve before I leave;
being on the Council would have been a distraction from that.

Best regards,
Stu
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustees Announcement

[Michael Cummings]

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Stuart Herbert wrote:
> On 9/5/06, Stephen P. Becker <geoman@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> I just remembered something.  Didn't Stuart say that he planned on
>> leaving Gentoo when he was nominated for the Council recently (and
>> declined)?
> 
> Yes I did.  There are a few things I want to achieve before I leave;
> being on the Council would have been a distraction from that.
> 
> Best regards,
> Stu
Not trying to be confused - its a natural state for me. Does this mean
you are not a trustee (declining the role) and so there is still 1 slot
open?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustees Announcement

[Christel Dahlskjaer]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 12:24 -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Trustees voting did actually finish over a month ago.  It's high time
> for the official announcement.  This year's Board of Trustees for the
> Gentoo Foundation has been reduced to 5 people, instead of 13.  That was
> something we wanted a vote on, in addition to the regular board,
> however, only 5 people were nominated.  Thus, they formed the new board:
> 
> I present to you, then, the new Board of Trustees:
> 
> Chris Gianelloni (wolf31o2)
> Grant Goodyear (g2boojum)
> Stuart Herbert (stuart)
> Seemant Kulleen (seemant)
> Renat Lumpau (rl03)

"Welcome" and good luck to both new and old trustees :)


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustees Announcement

[Christel Dahlskjaer]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 12:24 -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Trustees voting did actually finish over a month ago.  It's high time
> for the official announcement.  This year's Board of Trustees for the
> Gentoo Foundation has been reduced to 5 people, instead of 13.  That was
> something we wanted a vote on, in addition to the regular board,
> however, only 5 people were nominated.  Thus, they formed the new board:
> 
> I present to you, then, the new Board of Trustees:
> 
> Chris Gianelloni (wolf31o2)
> Grant Goodyear (g2boojum)
> Stuart Herbert (stuart)
> Seemant Kulleen (seemant)
> Renat Lumpau (rl03)

"Welcome" and good luck to both new and old trustees :)


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustees Announcement

[Stephen Bennett]

On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:40:26 -0700
"Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh" <iluxa@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Well, If there was such an option, which makes it more
> then just a popularity contest, I'd be voting.

Seconded.

> 
> Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 18:17 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> >   
> >> On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:08:22 -0700 Donnie Berkholz
> >> <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> | Mike Doty wrote:
> >> | > What vote?  I don't remember one.
> >> | 
> >> | 5 nominees, 5 positions. Did you want a popularity contest among
> >> them?
> >>
> >> A Debian-style "reopen nominations" option with a vote would make
> >> more sense...
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > I wouldn't oppose this at all if that's what the foundation members
> > want.  However, this issue has languished on -core precisely due to
> > non-interest.  So if you can rile up the people to rise up and
> > demand this, or something, you'll definitely impress with me :)
> >   
> 
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[gentoo-dev] Re: Trustees Announcement

[Torsten Veller]

* Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>:
> Stuart Herbert wrote:
> > On 9/5/06, Stephen P. Becker <geoman@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> I just remembered something.  Didn't Stuart say that he planned on
> >> leaving Gentoo when he was nominated for the Council recently (and
> >> declined)?
> > 
> > Yes I did.  There are a few things I want to achieve before I leave;
> > being on the Council would have been a distraction from that.
> > 
> Not trying to be confused - its a natural state for me. Does this mean
> you are not a trustee (declining the role) and so there is still 1 slot
> open?

No, you are mixing council and trustee.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Trustees Announcement

[Stephen P. Becker]

Torsten Veller wrote:
> * Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>:
>> Stuart Herbert wrote:
>>> On 9/5/06, Stephen P. Becker <geoman@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>> I just remembered something.  Didn't Stuart say that he planned on
>>>> leaving Gentoo when he was nominated for the Council recently (and
>>>> declined)?
>>> Yes I did.  There are a few things I want to achieve before I leave;
>>> being on the Council would have been a distraction from that.
>>>
>> Not trying to be confused - its a natural state for me. Does this mean
>> you are not a trustee (declining the role) and so there is still 1 slot
>> open?
> 
> No, you are mixing council and trustee.

Actually, I *think* he was trying to ask why Stuart feels that he can
take on the responsibility of being a trustee if he felt that he didn't
have the time to take on the responsibility of being a council member.
I also must admit that I'm curious of the answer to that in light of the
fact that he admittedly plans on leaving Gentoo sometime soon.

-Steve
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustees Announcement

[Grant Goodyear]

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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [Tue Sep 05 2006, 12:17:20PM CDT]
> A Debian-style "reopen nominations" option with a vote would make more
> sense...

I'm not particularly opposed.  

In any event, we're going to need a way to identify foundation members.
I've asked agriffis to generate a list of members as of the last
election, and anybody not on that list who's been a dev for a year
is eligible to join.  My tentative plan was to have current and wannabe
members vote to approve or reject each of the nominees, and those who
are eligible who vote then become members of the Foundation.  If people
would prefer to simply have a "reopen nominations (yes/no)" vote, 
that would be fine with me.

I'm afk tomorrow, but I'll read any comments once I return.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Trustees Announcement

[Stuart Herbert]

On 9/6/06, Stephen P. Becker <geoman@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Actually, I *think* he was trying to ask why Stuart feels that he can
> take on the responsibility of being a trustee if he felt that he didn't
> have the time to take on the responsibility of being a council member.
> I also must admit that I'm curious of the answer to that in light of the
> fact that he admittedly plans on leaving Gentoo sometime soon.

To save everyone a bit of time, it'd be quicker just to read the
existing thread on -core where I explained why I was standing as a
trustee.

Best regards,
Stu
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[gentoo-dev] Re: Trustees Announcement

[Torsten Veller]

* Stuart Herbert <stuart.herbert@gmail.com>:
> To save everyone a bit of time, it'd be quicker just to read the
> existing thread on -core where I explained why I was standing as a
> trustee.

It was -nfp (<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.nfp/377>).
The list where this annoncement should have ... Anyway
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Trustees Announcement

[Elfyn McBratney]

Ciao,

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 12:24:49PM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
 > Dear All,
 > 
 > Trustees voting did actually finish over a month ago.  It's high time
 > for the official announcement.  This year's Board of Trustees for the
 > Gentoo Foundation has been reduced to 5 people, instead of 13.  That was
 > something we wanted a vote on, in addition to the regular board,
 > however, only 5 people were nominated.  Thus, they formed the new board:
 > 
 > I present to you, then, the new Board of Trustees:
 > 
 > Chris Gianelloni (wolf31o2)
 > Grant Goodyear (g2boojum)
 > Stuart Herbert (stuart)
 > Seemant Kulleen (seemant)
 > Renat Lumpau (rl03)
 > 
 > We will schedule the first Board Meeting for this year, for sometime
 > this month, hopefully.
 > 
 > Please note that the board is 60% new, so please do welcome the new
 > members.

Congratulations, trustees - new and old! :D  Now where's my Free iPod? ;P

Best,
Elfyn

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