Re: [gentoo-project] Looking for ways the Foundation can accomplish its mission.

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

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Hi Alec, 

>  - Host a Gentoo Conference.

Makes no sense, I doubt we gather enough critical mass. We are much better off 
at general OSS conferences (like FOSDEM). An option might be an additional 
"Gentoo day" at such an event though.

>  - Host a bug-bounty program.

Nope. We have enough of them already. We need to fix them.

>  - Fund talks about Gentoo development activities at industry conferences.

Kinda makes sense. Getting some industry sponsors aboard would be nice. That 
said, Gentoo's focus has been shifting from industry-oriented / USA more to 
OSS-enthusiast-oriented / Europe recently. So we need to be careful that this 
doesnt lead to conflicts.

>  - Invest significantly in Infrastructure spending to fund ambitious
> projects.

You need people who work on that first.

Suggestion: Found a tinderbox project, get toralf, kensington, zerochaos, 
mgorny, whoelse? on board, integrate this into one nice system with (for 
authorized users) point-and-click interfaces for bug reporting and public 
status web pages. *Then*, invest in fat hardware for it.

Our shortage is not money or infrastructire.
Our shortage is a) people, and b) cooperation.

Cheers, 
Andreas


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

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