From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: 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 7D4FA1382C5 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2020 17:20:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A4D3E0819; Mon, 29 Jun 2020 17:20:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (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 23AF5E0729 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2020 17:20:29 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:19:59 -0400 From: Aaron Bauman To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Questions for Council candidates: Future of the Foundation Message-ID: <20200629171959.GA109251@bubba> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 1f7d3cd2-f3c6-412b-90d8-33b4f00da6d6 X-Archives-Hash: 857ab343be4780ad0d655e9bce2df751 --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 06:30:23AM +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Dear council candidates, >=20 > I'd like to know what opinions you hold about the future of the > Foundation. I intend to publicly post the same question for the > Foundation Trustee candidates when that election starts. >=20 > Q1: What are your feels on the recent history of the Foundation? (last > 2-3 years) > Hi, Robin. I believe the last 2-3 years have been slow but productive in righting ourselves with the IRS. Additionally, I believe the current board of trustees truly understands the role of the foundation within the community. We are here to support financially and legally to ensure that things such an infra is paid for, no copyright infringement, developers have items needed (e.g. NitroKey), etc. > Q2: What should the Foundation do more of? >=20 As I have stated personally amongst the trustees, I would like to explore sponsoring developers to open source conferences and finding other ways to expend our income in a socially and fiscally responsible manner for supporting our purpose as a distribution. > Q3: What should the Foundation do less of? >=20 We definitely need to codify the role of the foundation amongst the distribution to future-proof any attempts or thoughts of overthrowing the council. I personally believe an easy win for this is to modify the by-laws delineating this role and empowering the council. This is not to suggest that the council is not empowered now, but simply ensuring that any attempts of "sea lawyers" to think they can suggest such courses of actions is nullified. > Q4: What should become of the Foundation? > * something not the following list at all? > * long-term continue to exist as-is non-501c6 state > * finish 501c6 state > * convert to 501c3 in some way > * join an umbrella? > ** what should the selection criterion be? > * disband entirely > ** where should the financial holdings go? > ** where should the copyright & trademark holdings go? > ** what actions will be impacted by this? >=20 My personal opinion has been publically stated already and amongst the trustees. I interpret one cornerstone of the social contract as ensuring that Gentoo remains autonomous. I have reservations that an overarching "umbrella" could/would make decisions against the overall ideals of our community. As an example: Umbrella X decides that all subordinate projects must accept License-X for their project. License X is against our "core" values/social contract. We (Gentoo) must now obtain membership or some voting capacity to override such a decision *outside* the scope of our usual internal governance. As such, I believe we ought to reincorporate ourselves as a 501c3 for the t= ax benefit, retain bookkeeping/tax specialists, and ensure that we codify the role of the council, foundation, etc for the community. Of course, there is a *lot* of items to be unpacked here for discussion. Namely, financial impacts of retaining such services vs income etc. > --=20 > Robin Hugh Johnson > Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer > E-Mail : robbat2@gentoo.org > GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 > GnuPG FP : 7D0B3CEB E9B85B1F 825BCECF EE05E6F6 A48F6136 --=20 Cheers, Aaron --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCAAdFiEEDA48qNrrn8VVVcst4yp5f7HQy3AFAl76Ir8ACgkQ4yp5f7HQ y3CsRwf9G6kZDaSnOuo9tXPg9FmxyDabaQI7ZfYfed22R83iCKSCDfRMgRYslOUV 3S9sGGpRdh+TqFDG/HOO9sGhRRxGPuw6lGQ6FyQ0AVSEHC7Pgx4bJYEp0yTr+JoU S7/sfOJJVPLjkSbqCHpsksGIshz+hjr1Ooxx7SSqS86Hojxi+9n842z48A3jkzz8 zogIn6qaZYKgdVnXxIFzR1Ha9CQwKdKcmr0CLsIt2KEz9eNfcN5wyNUhMHAdabZX mwN1ZA71zmb5mNvkzmJM5oSQlLGp08tpHzpRTGeiB+ajKaSLheDjYzi6kW34KVtb U2D6C5DwfOseWJT64YYWDSZCzy0emw== =pwDV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt--