From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QoMrg-0006dC-64 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:51:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A845621C0BD; Tue, 2 Aug 2011 21:50:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBD2121C0B3 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2011 21:50:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so213884wwf.10 for ; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:50:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=WpAuz/ZwXn+j1OYHb7hRPQcpw8AkqiJkhPvnbjXIj7E=; b=suJU01C1oDOipP+jRk/8lJbotl4l38a0ni2E0skvAqDaU+14+CmBEXTxHQs5XJCHIS BQ88/6YfTxMTnhSmxXOsX/SAQqH3p7j/A87NhJ7uPAOfjWWpSP0iDEJIB2wZ29WfaL21 koJYbbxY2VSR/xm6q/27IchcI7wUL9bI/c3QI= Received: by 10.216.229.86 with SMTP id g64mr1033747weq.50.1312321838873; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:50:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [130.88.185.147] (wh147a.halls.manchester.ac.uk [130.88.185.147]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o19sm144651wbh.43.2011.08.02.14.50.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:50:38 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Markos Chandras Message-ID: <4E387117.30808@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:50:15 +0100 From: Markos Chandras User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110721 Thunderbird/5.0 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Council discuss: overlapping council terms of two years References: <1312309445.2901.3@NeddySeagoon> In-Reply-To: <1312309445.2901.3@NeddySeagoon> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ae2b83af88a259c4938433314bd28ff5 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 08/02/2011 07:24 PM, Roy Bamford wrote: > Team, > > The trustees are legally accountable and responsible for the > operation of the Gentoo Foundation Inc. Some things in the bylaws > are there to comply with statutes. > > The Gentoo council has no legal standing whatsoever, which I have > already said (at FOSEDEM) makes me a little nervous as a trustee, > since the council makes decisions on behalf of Gentoo that the > Foundation would be held both accountable and responsible for. There > have been no issues with that, yet. The council is supposed to discuss and decides on technical or project wise issues. How can a technical decision violate laws etc? I can't think on top of my head an issue that would expose Foundation. Can you please provide an example? > > Maybe its time to reorganise Gentoo along standard corporate lines > again, as it was before drobbins left. If we go in that direction, > the council becomes a technical committee that is part of the > Foundation. GLEP39 is no longer needed and the Foundation bylaws are > amended to reflect the new structure. If we go in that direction, I see no point in having the Foundation and the Council as two separate entities. In this case it would make much more sense to merge them. I don't quite like the idea though. - -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJOOHEXAAoJEPqDWhW0r/LCqpkP/jmqorZ8T81+T6jWHpar6RWH TU0ieSdkqimAjKcK+ZxOosreKHTTD8S8lhRACN570d9P16o4JFWQfb1lCtJVNGnq cIEvF2iRkwNzyCJDZWMXKWsZrKRUySxptKc8ELtS/NmF+BSqMcp1oh7Iq+rROdLy paOS4R1BToBpDUBEg52xOZ8hXxSMXOHveUzFVQvz5aKGd1EG3cTBHovnzYnWKp5x snVDh+GAzcvFxpoLOtuH4CQdZk+wD9VCxSsMSEGOkZFK/pe3TkZX4Vm1mP5ovgHF 0kHx8H0KQ+xSgm81lyNPI53uacqZS96sGysOD8Zq44ytlYGD+490rUcB/ghy7wwI PzYODUZ4cObOtz+JDgRe3ShVGY3DOw5DvgOc86DPy+ccKPRijDsPkU/r5UQX1X8Y fLK9S26jDDrZG59GP2qidD4+hImL5XMohAtR7H/Iqjl+MnFqhI0GXSfd4Ma7jT+U NCAgtKb/ENWZXXAMqlyNLERRTRexga1CUFbncdioSjJ3r+bT4jdUTy2YqFD1CrF7 p4yav8UFKaLhcnRkCVncfiuMHURxFIJf5SfAkoTKGmAjz/st+23wrPiUTWDu/bXR DvjYrPRIAJYIzsnYmq8vwxWbowP4SICSSzhtJce8YuEF/09QBg65PGRezJipPhxS npFvrhBl1QMpZ19N1hfn =QZRN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----