[gentoo-project] Gentoo Foundation Inc - Ballot

[gentoo-project] Gentoo Foundation Inc - Ballot

[Roy Bamford]

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All,

The Gentoo Foundation Inc. has been approached by a few large Gentoo 
users about purchasing advertising on the gentoo.org side bar.
They are not in the IT industry so cannot support us in the traditional 
way, by donating their own product. 

The trustees anticipate that more approaches of this nature will be 
received and view it as a sign of Gentoo maturing.

Recognising that this would be a break with tradition, by allowing even 
major users to contribute to Gentoo in this way the trustees determined 
to put the question to a vote of Foundation members.

The recording date for the vote will be 29th November. To vote, your 
Foundation membership must be approved on or before that date.

Voting will be from 1 December to 11 December, to enable the result to 
be available for the next Trustee meeting on 13 December.

The motion to be voted on will be 
Should major Gentoo users be permitted to purchase ads on the sidebar  
- Vote yes or No

The trustees recommend that the motion on the ballot is supported. 

On behalf of the Gentoo Foundation Inc.

-- 
Regards,

Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon)
President


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[gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-foundation-announce] Gentoo Foundation Inc - Ballot

[Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto]

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Roy Bamford wrote:
> All,
>
> The Gentoo Foundation Inc. has been approached by a few large
> Gentoo users about purchasing advertising on the gentoo.org side
> bar. They are not in the IT industry so cannot support us in the
> traditional way, by donating their own product.
>
> The trustees anticipate that more approaches of this nature will be
>  received and view it as a sign of Gentoo maturing.
>
> Recognising that this would be a break with tradition, by allowing
> even major users to contribute to Gentoo in this way the trustees
> determined to put the question to a vote of Foundation members.
>
> The recording date for the vote will be 29th November. To vote,
> your Foundation membership must be approved on or before that date.
>
>
> Voting will be from 1 December to 11 December, to enable the result
> to be available for the next Trustee meeting on 13 December.
>
> The motion to be voted on will be Should major Gentoo users be
> permitted to purchase ads on the sidebar - Vote yes or No

Roy,

are there any "limits" to the type of advertisements that the
Foundation will permit? I expect that the Trustees will do some
filtering regardless, but are we going to create a "policy" on the
type of advertisements that are to be permitted?

>
> The trustees recommend that the motion on the ballot is supported.
>
>
> On behalf of the Gentoo Foundation Inc.
>

Although I consider this to be a significant change, I hope it won't
affect Gentoo's spirit, that it may help foster support for Gentoo and
that we can make the best use of these resources for our community.

- --
Regards,

Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE
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Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-foundation-announce] Gentoo Foundation Inc - Ballot

[Roy Bamford]

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On 2009.11.24 02:47, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
> Roy Bamford wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > The Gentoo Foundation Inc. has been approached by a few large
> > Gentoo users about purchasing advertising on the gentoo.org side
> > bar. They are not in the IT industry so cannot support us in the
> > traditional way, by donating their own product.
> >
> > The trustees anticipate that more approaches of this nature will be
> >  received and view it as a sign of Gentoo maturing.
> >
> > Recognising that this would be a break with tradition, by allowing
> > even major users to contribute to Gentoo in this way the trustees
> > determined to put the question to a vote of Foundation members.
> >
> > The recording date for the vote will be 29th November. To vote,
> > your Foundation membership must be approved on or before that date.
> >
> >
> > Voting will be from 1 December to 11 December, to enable the result
> > to be available for the next Trustee meeting on 13 December.
> >
> > The motion to be voted on will be Should major Gentoo users be
> > permitted to purchase ads on the sidebar - Vote yes or No
> 
> Roy,
> 
> are there any "limits" to the type of advertisements that the
> Foundation will permit? I expect that the Trustees will do some
> filtering regardless, but are we going to create a "policy" on the
> type of advertisements that are to be permitted?

The intention is to leave that to the trustees to determine on a case 
by case basis. A present, we only have applications from companies in 
the Financial sector who use Gentoo for their operations, so there 
will be little or no immediate change. We already have such a side bar 
advert from a Financial company that donates in the conventional way.

> 
> >
> > The trustees recommend that the motion on the ballot is supported.
> >
> >
> > On behalf of the Gentoo Foundation Inc.
> >
> 
> Although I consider this to be a significant change, I hope it won't
> affect Gentoo's spirit, that it may help foster support for Gentoo 
> and
> that we can make the best use of these resources for our community.
> 
I think it is a case of companies who have benefited from Gentoo 
wanting to give something back in a way that benefits both parties. We 
really need to make this sort of thing easier for them.  That's what 
the vote is about. 

It won't change Gentoos spirit - Gentoo will continue to be a community 
distro. It will make more resources available to allow the Foundation 
to help Gentoo grow.


> --
> Regards,
> 
> Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
> Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE
> 

Foundation resources will continue to be available in the way they are 
now. By application to the trustees.

-- 
Regards,

Roy Bamford
(Neddyseagoon) an member of
gentoo-ops
forum-mods
trustees


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