From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDKg2-0004C7-7A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:25:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD300E0BE4; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:25:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost02.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost02.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.3.141]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DEB2E0BE4 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:25:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [62.3.120.141] (helo=NeddySeagoon) by smarthost02.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NDKfu-0005io-UP; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:25:03 +0000 Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:24:55 +0000 From: Roy Bamford Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-foundation-announce] Gentoo Foundation Inc - Ballot To: "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" Cc: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4B0B4947.5060906@gentoo.org> (from jmbsvicetto@gentoo.org on Tue Nov 24 02:47:35 2009) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.1 Message-Id: <1259166302.2861.1@NeddySeagoon> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="=-Hzuj/7ZxA4InBdJNHj5/" X-Originating-Smarthost02-IP: [62.3.120.141] X-Archives-Salt: 4106335e-7b5d-441d-ac4f-d5e77508fab2 X-Archives-Hash: f4b0a19a0a5219f2e548be77844f732e --=-Hzuj/7ZxA4InBdJNHj5/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 >=20 > Roy, >=20 > 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=20 by case basis. A present, we only have applications from companies in=20 the Financial sector who use Gentoo for their operations, so there=20 will be little or no immediate change. We already have such a side bar=20 advert from a Financial company that donates in the conventional way. >=20 > > > > The trustees recommend that the motion on the ballot is supported. > > > > > > On behalf of the Gentoo Foundation Inc. > > >=20 > 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=20 > and > that we can make the best use of these resources for our community. >=20 I think it is a case of companies who have benefited from Gentoo=20 wanting to give something back in a way that benefits both parties. We=20 really need to make this sort of thing easier for them. That's what=20 the vote is about.=20 It won't change Gentoos spirit - Gentoo will continue to be a community=20 distro. It will make more resources available to allow the Foundation=20 to help Gentoo grow. > -- > Regards, >=20 > Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org > Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE >=20 Foundation resources will continue to be available in the way they are=20 now. By application to the trustees. --=20 Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) an member of gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees --=-Hzuj/7ZxA4InBdJNHj5/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAksNWl4ACgkQTE4/y7nJvavQ2gCgmEjESrHmpWRvEVP1XisX8+++ xMgAoPvV2duO4sLUxHtGXw82XNwEeCjt =ovq1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Hzuj/7ZxA4InBdJNHj5/--