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 20A3F138359 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2020 21:26:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D123BE08A2; Thu, 2 Jul 2020 21:26:24 +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 9A0AEE089E for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2020 21:26:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (nullmailer pid 26914 invoked by uid 1000); Thu, 02 Jul 2020 21:26:18 -0000 Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 16:26:18 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Questions for Council candidates: Future of the Foundation Message-ID: <20200702212618.GA26827@linux1.home> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org 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-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 2a20876b-d61b-4779-be8e-965aef7ab900 X-Archives-Hash: 19479cddae4c07a42bb1fee9054d4231 --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 06:30:23AM +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Q1: What are your feels on the recent history of the Foundation? (last > 2-3 years) =20 My understanding of the last two-three years is that there has been a lot of work to fix the books of the foundation, and this is good. I would like to publically thank you, Robin, for this work. > Q2: What should the Foundation do more of? >=20 > Q3: What should the Foundation do less of? =20 I do not have much to comment on for these two. > Q4: What should become of the Foundation? > * finish 501c6 state > * convert to 501c3 in some way This is definitely not my skill set, so I don't have much to say, but I do think the foundation should continue long-term and go for one of these options. While the council represents the technical leadership of the distribution, the foundation owns the trademark and logo. I feel that we need a legal entity of some sort that actually owns those interests. Thanks, William --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABECAB0WIQTVeuxEZo4uUHOkQAluVBb0MMRlOAUCXv5Q9AAKCRBuVBb0MMRl OBCxAKCizkm7ibiBTOKpLSWtaA2q1xzJdACgswWNtQhOVGIiFjMAVY84bP+xJCg= =sj/W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3--