From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-project+bounces-8082-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23A80138334 for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 13:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4305E082B; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 13:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 061F9E077D; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 13:36:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [46.148.226.87]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bircoph) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6E120335C7D; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 13:35:57 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:35:42 +0300 From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Cc: gentoo-nfp@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Looking for ways the Foundation can accomplish its mission. Message-Id: <20180906163542.673973504a82ba702a7c8266@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <CAAr7Pr8Og-92Raw+zeQNKDbdSppS-7kubw6uApXKuL32y44STw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAAr7Pr8Og-92Raw+zeQNKDbdSppS-7kubw6uApXKuL32y44STw@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.30; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-project+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-project+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-project+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list <gentoo-project.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA512"; boundary="Signature=_Thu__6_Sep_2018_16_35_43_+0300_1H7btr9FHLdmAbiZ" X-Archives-Salt: fc62db00-f8a8-4f8f-8f18-10752eee8c78 X-Archives-Hash: 461bf283da7e308fffba7feeeab0a10f --Signature=_Thu__6_Sep_2018_16_35_43_+0300_1H7btr9FHLdmAbiZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi! On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 08:47:05 -0400 Alec Warner wrote: > Dear Gentoo Community, >=20 > I have recently become the President of the Gentoo Foundation Inc. The > Foundation's documents[0] provide fairly terse guidance on how the > Foundation is to be operated. The Foundation currently provides funding f= or > Gentoo Infrastructure, and very little else. Part of my job as President = is > to determine what additional activities the Foundation can pursue (if any= ); > and to determine how the Foundation can improve Gentoo by investing in > infrastructure, while still meeting the spirit of the other restrictions = on > Foundation activities[1]. So community, how do you think the Foundation c= an > assist the development of Gentoo? >=20 > Some ideas might be: > - Host a Gentoo Conference. > - Host a bug-bounty program. > - Fund talks about Gentoo development activities at industry conferences. > - Invest significantly in Infrastructure spending to fund ambitious > projects. First and foremost the Foundation should focus on its primary goal: funding, its financial accounting and becoming non for profit organization. Current state of the Foundation's bookkeeping is concerning: we have not seen final annual financial report for years. Good news that finally preliminary reports are published (thanks robbat2!), but they are not final and there is still a lot of work to do. Tax status is unclear (it was discussed earlier that the Foundation may have to pay quite sufficient tax as a penalty for lousy accounting). And the Foundation still lacks non for profit official status. Lack of human resources is a long-standing problem for the Foundation and embracing more goals while failing with the critical ones is an unwise idea. 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