On Sat, 2019-07-13 at 22:15 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > On 2019.07.13 21:56, Alec Warner wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 1:15 PM 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. > > > > > > > I don't understand your question. "Gentoo" as a legal organization > > would > > not exist. The assets would be owned by the umbrella. Donations would > > go to > > the umbrella. The Community would submit requests to spend money to > > the > > umbrella (the same way they submit funding requests to the existing > > Gentoo > > Foundation.) > > > > Is that clearer? > > Maybe an example will help? > What group or individual within Gentoo will determine if directing > the umbrella to buy a Power9 system for the distro is a good idea > or not. The Council, obviously. As it should be doing it today, except by some weird mistake Foundation decides to skip it entirely and authorize technical decisions on its own. -- Best regards, Michał Górny