Re: [gentoo-project] Merging Trustees and Council / Developers and Foundation - 1.0 reply

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 04:59:49 -0600
Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 01/11/2017 01:50 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, Matthew Thode wrote:  
> >   
> >> 9. Members of the 'board' having conflicts with their job.  
> >   
> >>   I'm, not sure about this as it's likely case by case. But I
> >> personally don't see this causing much more issues than what is
> >> already caused by working on an open source project.  
> > 
> > It is causing more issues. I need no special permission to serve on
> > the Council. However, law [1] doesn't allow me any activity in an
> > "organ" of a corporation, even if that activity is non-paid. I suspect
> > that getting permission for this could take a long time, since there
> > may be no precedent for U.S. (or New Mexico) nonprofit corporations.
> > 
> > IIUC, dilfridge is in a similar situation.
> > 
> > Ulrich
> > 
> > [1] Landesbeamtengesetz of Rhineland-Palatinate, § 83 Absatz 1 Satz 2 Nr. 2
> >     http://landesrecht.rlp.de/jportal/?quelle=jlink&query=BG+RP&psml=bsrlpprod.psml
> >   
> 
> On second thought, I think that under the board there will still be a
> council for general technical matters that you would still be electable
> towards.  In the next version of this (1.1) I think I'm leaning towards
> the 'board' being what is currently trustees + hr(comrel) + pr + infra.
> Under that would go what is currently being done by council.

I'm sorry but I feel like I'm completely lost here. If the board is not
actually to be a separate entity, then what is changing exactly?
And what's the problem being solved, now?

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Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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