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 08:56:44 -0800
Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > What about you have a closer look at for example the Debian project [1]?
> >
> > There, the project and its developer community is not organized in any
> > legal entity.
> >
> > All business that requires a legal entity is organized via *mutliple*
> > foundations [2,3] - none of which have any power over the project
> > itself.
> >
> > This is exactly the model we have at the moment.
> >
> > So what on earth is the problem?
> >  
> 
> I suspect one problem might be:
> 
> 1) Most developers are not interested in Foundation affairs.
> 2) The Foundation is often minimally staffed with enough members (to vote)
> and trustees (to run the foundation legally.)
> 3) In the past, the Foundation failed to renew its New Mexico filing (which
> was fixed later.)
> 4) The status of the Foundation with regards to the US tax organ (the IRS)
> is decidedly unclear at this time (but its being worked on.)
> 
> So there is some concern that the Foundation is not being run well in the
> current system. Keeping the current system is worrisome (as a current
> trustee, I certainly worry about it!) This is one reason why I think the
> status quo is a bad idea.

Thanks for clarifying. This brings the next question: how does adding
more functions (== work) to Trustees improve the state of affairs they
can't handle already?

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

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