Re: [gentoo-project] Meeting agenda - Council meeting 2018-04-08

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

W dniu sob, 07.04.2018 o godzinie 08∶39 +0200, użytkownik Michał Górny
napisał:
> W dniu pią, 06.04.2018 o godzinie 17∶27 -0500, użytkownik Matthew Thode
> napisał:
> > On 18-04-07 00:16:20, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, 6. April 2018, 21:46:31 CEST schrieb David Abbott:
> > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > If nothing else this might also be a way to reduce the workload on the
> > > > > Foundation so that they can focus more on getting the paperwork caught
> > > > > up vs actually having to pay for infra.
> > > > 
> > > > So the funding is coming from the council? What will SPI use to pay infra
> > > > with?
> > > 
> > > Funding is coming from the same sources as where it comes from now. Given that 
> > > the new association starts from zero, it will in the beginning not have much 
> > > money.
> > > 
> > > Just see it as having a second bank account, or having a second payment 
> > > provider in parallel.
> > 
> > I'm not sure what it'd get us, we've had and have multple accounts
> > already.
> > 
> 
> Let me put it bluntly like this: all of our current resources are
> endangered by incompetence of Trustees since the forming
> of the Foundation. You can trivialize the problem this as much as
> you need to but this is the fact until we have a really good
> confirmation that the paperwork is clean.
> 

I would like to apologize for this harmful generalization. Not all
Trustees in the history of Foundation were incompetent. In particular,
it is worth noting that Robin H. Johnson has put a significant effort
in improving the tax situation, and Daniel Campbell had his contribution
too.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny