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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Council meeting Sunday 10/June/2018 18:00 UTC
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 20:02:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5384311.EBcQyDrdbO@pinacolada> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5810916.EmyZUXBcj5@pinacolada>

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Am Freitag, 8. Juni 2018, 19:44:00 CEST schrieb Andreas K. Huettel:
> Dear all,
> 
> the Gentoo Council will meet again this sunday, 10 June 2018, 18:00 UTC on
> the #gentoo-council IRC channel.
> 
> Please reply to this e-mail with agenda item proposals.
> 

I would like to put the following proposal on the agenda once more (clarified 
and expanded):

The Gentoo council shall directly contact "Software in the Public Interest 
Inc." (SPI), with the intention of Gentoo becoming a SPI Associated Project.
The intention is for SPI to become an *additional* service provider of the 
Gentoo developer community for Accepting Donations, Holding Funds, and Holding 
Assets. The SPI project liaison shall be appointed by the Gentoo council.

No transfer of funds or assets of any kind between SPI and the Gentoo 
Foundation is stipulated (it would be the trustees' responsibility anyway), so 
any (dys)function of the Gentoo Foundation has no impact on this new business 
relationship. Equally, the business relationship with SPI shall have no impact 
on the current function of the Gentoo Foundation. Essentially, the proposal is 
that we start with an empty account at SPI. (I'll be happy to make the first 
donation.)


SPI does not require exclusivity; the company explicitly allows that a project 
is also sponsored by further parties. As long as SPI does not publicly 
represent Gentoo, there is no conflict regarding trademarks. Most SPI 
associated projects are unincorporated associations of individuals, as is the 
Gentoo developer community electing the Gentoo Council.

As additional bonus, we will be gaining that donations to SPI are tax-
deductible both in the US and in the EU.

The precise procedure for appointing the project liaison is up to debate; a 
draft proposal can be found below.
==
a) The project liaison is a Gentoo developer appointed by the Gentoo council,
and bound to follow its instructions. 
b) Appointment of the project liaison is by vote of the majority of council
members (i.e. >=4 votes). The only way to unseat the project liaison is to 
appoint a different project liaison by vote.
c) Officers and trustees of the Gentoo Foundation are not eligible for
project liaison. 
d) The restriction of c) can be lifted permanently by Gentoo council majority
decision only after the council, the Gentoo Foundation trustees, and the board
of the financial sponsor organization have come into agreement that
* the financial situation of the Gentoo Foundation has been sufficiently
  clarified, 
* any outstanding taxes have been determined and paid, and 
* any further outstanding relevant business of the Gentoo Foundation, i.e., 
  with the IRS, has been concluded.
==

-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, perl, libreoffice, comrel)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-08 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-08 17:44 [gentoo-project] Council meeting Sunday 10/June/2018 18:00 UTC Andreas K. Huettel
2018-06-08 17:57 ` Michał Górny
2018-06-08 18:05   ` Andreas K. Huettel
2018-06-08 18:02 ` Andreas K. Huettel [this message]
2018-06-10 15:24   ` Aaron Bauman
2018-06-10 16:34     ` Andreas K. Huettel
2018-06-10 16:43       ` Andreas K. Huettel
2018-06-10 16:52       ` Aaron Bauman
2018-06-10 17:19       ` Rich Freeman
2018-06-10 17:25         ` Andreas K. Huettel
2018-06-10 19:51   ` [gentoo-project] Re: SPI as an alternate foundation Matthew Thode

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