On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 10:57:31PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-07-13 at 21:15 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote:
> > On 2019.07.13 13:12, Roy Bamford wrote:
> > > Team,
> > > 
> > > This is a meta topic to collect Questions For Gentoo Foundation
> > > Trustee Candidates together.
> > > The idea seemed to work well on -project for council candidates.
> > > 
> > > Reply to this post with new questions only. The resulting sub topics
> > > will help keep responses and resulting discussion organised. 
> > > Accordingly, I will respond to this post with my question. 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Roy Bamford
> > > (Neddyseagoon) a member of
> > > elections
> > > gentoo-ops
> > > forum-mods
> > > arm64
> > 
> > Team,
> > 
> > In the event that the newly elected Foundation board determine that the 
> > Gentoo Foundation should be dissolved in favour of joining an umbrella 
> > how do the trustee candidates see Gentoos assets being managed?
> > 
> > We will still have to manage our own assets, defend our trademarks
> > and so on. The Foundation will be gone and with it the group charged 
> > with doing this sort of thing.
> > 
> 
> The primary responsibilities will fall to Council, as effective leading
> body of Gentoo.  They can either take care of them themselves, or
> appoint another group of people (project?) to do it under their
> supervision.
> 
> The hardware and likes are already practically managed by Infra, with
> Trustees only stamping transactions.  I don't see much difference in
> Council taking that over.
> 
> Trademarks sound like something umbrella would end up doing for us.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Michał Górny
> 

An umbrella would own and defend our trademarks, ensure book keeping is done,
and have a liaison within the project to carry out certains tasks.

If council "appointed" another project to carry out said tasks then they could
easily go against the council's wishes with no implications.

This is why, if dissolved in favor of the foundation that one of the council
members would need to be appointed as the liaison.

-- 
Cheers,
Aaron