[gentoo-nfp] nomination

[gentoo-nfp] nomination

[Brad Cowan]

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Hi,

  I'd like to be considered in the voting for a trustee position.  A
particular interest would be in the form of funding and the possibility
of grants based on recommendations of a "steering committee" if that
model gets approved.

Thanks,

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Re: [gentoo-nfp] nomination

[Paul de Vrieze]

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On Sunday 08 May 2005 17:36, Brad Cowan wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I'd like to be considered in the voting for a trustee position.  A
> particular interest would be in the form of funding and the possibility
> of grants based on recommendations of a "steering committee" if that
> model gets approved.

What do you mean by grants? Maybe I should add that the foundation by no means 
is rich, and financially most if not allmost all money not spend on legal 
fees should be saved for future legal fees and a reserve.

Paul

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[gentoo-nfp] nomination

[Kurt Lieber]

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I would like to be considered for the upcoming election as well.  I've been
less active in Gentoo recently due to some real life issues and, in fact, I
delayed sending this in because I wanted to ensure I would have the time
and ability to focus on this if elected to do so.  My life is settling back
down and I look forward to becoming more involved (again) with Gentoo in
the future.

As a trustee, I hope to continue to help Gentoo stay true to its roots,
while recognizing that it needs to change in order to meet the needs of our
users.  I think I also have quite a bit of business experience that can be
useful when forming strategic partnerships (as with Genesi) and similar
tasks.

--kurt

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[gentoo-nfp] nomination

[Michael Imhof]

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Hi all,

as many ppl before me I'd like to nominate myself for the board of trustees.

My preferred areas are:
- improve relations to users (especially in Europe) and to
  other groups or distributions
- preparation of presence at fairs and other events,
  creating information material, managing presentations
  about Gentoo
- spread the word about Gentoo  ;-)
- and last but not least an official Gentoo-store, in
  cooperation with the German `Friends of Gentoo e.V.' (for
  the European community)

About mayself i have to tell the following:
- Gentoo Developer for a while now
- projects:
  - Cluster herd (Manager)
  - Events (LinuxTag, Fosdem, LWE Frankfurt,
	IRL dev-meetings, User-meetings)
- founder and still a board member of the German NFP
  `Friends of Gentoo e.V.'
- 27 years old
- girlfriend (think about the time you saved!)
- university student in Computer Science



Regards
Michael

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Re: [gentoo-nfp] nomination

[Aron Griffis]

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You're added to http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti/misc/nominees.html

Regards,
Aron

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[gentoo-nfp] Nomination

[Kumba]

Alright, after much poking and prodding by various lobbying firms and special 
interests groups and some thought given to it during a quick game of 
Electroplankton, I've decided to cast my hat into the ring and run for a 
foundation trustee position.

Quick rundown of the things I do in Gentoo include:

   - Help manage the Gentoo/MIPS port as the MIPS Team Lead
   - Provide a visible Gentoo presence (along with others) in
     the linux-mips IRC channel (which has mostly debian people)
   - Chip in on random Gentoo/SPARC related discussions
   - Chip in on base-system, toolchain, and gcc-porting
     oddities at random.
   - Idle constantly in several Gentoo IRC channels
   - Developed 'crossdev', the forerunner to the portage
     cross-toolchain toolkit.
   - Trained four new MIPS devs, and currently in the process
     of mentoring a 5th one.

My preferred goals for running for a foundation position are mainly for giving 
the alt-arch groups (primarily sparc and mips, but others too) a voice in 
things, as we often find ourselves overlooked or compared to inefficient 
x86-based systems.

Some quick things about me:

   - Been a developer for 2 years
   - Residing in an insignificant region outside the DC
     Metro area, which I might add, is ranked #3 in worst
     traffic in the nation, and I drive in it.
   - Owner of many SGI systems (Octane, 2 O2's, Indy,
     Indigo2 R10K, Indigo2 R8K).


So vote for me today, and I guarantee I'll make your teeth up to 25% whiter!



--Kumba

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do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."  --Elrond
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Re: [gentoo-nfp] Nomination

[Aron Griffis]

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Added to the list.

Regards,
Aron

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Gentoo Linux Developer


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[gentoo-nfp] nomination

[George]

Although he has already said no I hope to convince him to say yes by 
nominating him again:

Daniel Robbins

Also, I missed out on nominating dsd (Daniel Drake) last time and would 
like to nominate him now.

George
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Re: [gentoo-nfp] nomination

[Daniel Drake]

George wrote:
> Also, I missed out on nominating dsd (Daniel Drake) last time and would 
> like to nominate him now.

Thanks for the nomination but I decline: Not really interested in doing 
more of this kind of work, and I have too much on my plate already.

Daniel

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[gentoo-nfp] nomination

[Daniel Robbins]

On 2/1/08, George <cokehabit@gmail.com> wrote:
> Although he has already said no I hope to convince him to say yes by
> nominating him again:
>
> Daniel Robbins

Hey George,

One of the reasons I wanted to come back in the manner I initially
suggested is because I have limited time. To work as a trustee,
particularly to do what I would hope to do, would require a very large
investment of time to work within the structure that currently exists.

I don't have the amount of free time required to do that, so I would
either need to choose to have a stressful and overly busy life and
succeed with improving Gentoo or to be disciplined about not investing
too much time in the project but then not getting much done as a
trustee, in which case you would probably be disappointed in me as a
trustee. Coming back to Gentoo as a trustee as it currently operates,
for me at least, would basically be a 40-hour-a-week full-time job.

One of the benefits of moving away from a purely democratic model is
that having people who can simply make decisions is *way* more
efficient in terms of time. Yes, people can always disagree and leave
the project if you don't get them on board with your ideas, but that's
life. I don't see Linus taking polls and reading tea leaves because he
worries that he might alienate some Linux developers by a decision
that he makes. Competent people won't make decisions in a vacuum and
will consult with the appropriate subject matter experts first. Often,
the "experts" are the users and other members of the community.

If the structure stays pretty much the way it is, I think there might
be some need to have a full-time and competitively paid President or
Chief Architect position so some skilled and experienced person could
actually devote their efforts full-time to improving Gentoo. I am
aware that this is out of the realm of possibility right now, so that
leaves the option of streamlining the efficiency and effectiveness of
the organization to better match up with peoples' real-world time
commitments as volunteers.

That may involve scaling back ambitious plans in terms of joining
various other NFP entities and simply running the Foundation as it
currently exists, filing paperwork on time (which is not hard), etc.
The time wasted on investigating SPI and other entities far exceeds
the time that is required to actually run the Foundation as it exists.
I realize that this leaves some aspects of the Foundation's goals
unrealized. I think as long as this is communicated to the community
clearly, then this is OK for the time being. First things first. Get a
track record of getting the critical things taken care of - things
like getting a registered agent for the existing organization so that
the Foundation has a valid mailing address when its charter is
renewed, ensuring that the NM records are up-to-date and reflect
reality, etc. There is more than enough money to get an experienced NM
lawyer to help that can take care of this quite easily.

For the project, steps need to be taken to reduce bureaucracy without
harming the quality o the Portage tree, to improve efficiency and
streamline decision-making mechanisms and reduced centralized decision
making when possible.

Anyway, I'm getting off-topic. So I hope that gives you some more
insight into why I chose to decline the nomination. My initial offer
is what I determined I could personally handle while balancing other
commitments. (Note that I'm not secretly hinting that my initial offer
is still available, it isn't.)

Today, actually, I was planning to unsubscribe from -nfp due to other
commitments, which will probably happen in a few minutes.

-Daniel
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