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 8F2EE139085 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:06:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C80D92340A7; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:06:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tsukuyomi.43-1.org (tsukuyomi.43-1.org [IPv6:2a01:4f8:173:743::1:50]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8BE042340A2 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:06:20 +0000 (UTC) From: Matthias Maier To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Merging Trustees and Council / Developers and Foundation - 1.0 reply In-Reply-To: (Alec Warner's message of "Wed, 11 Jan 2017 08:56:44 -0800") References: <35d4687b-4cbd-cf79-254c-c7476c06bb3a@gentoo.org> <1d601c44-e136-382d-54f4-27d3437dfcc5@gentoo.org> <87r349iy3d.fsf@kestrel.kyomu.43-1.org> <877f61bkxw.fsf@kestrel.kyomu.43-1.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 11:06:17 -0600 Message-ID: <87y3yha5me.fsf@kestrel.kyomu.43-1.org> 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: ce1cf978-7d35-49bd-b3dd-8be109004de2 X-Archives-Hash: 3b31f2bcb90b713d7dfffcbb6a8f85b6 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain On Wed, Jan 11, 2017, at 10:56 CST, Alec Warner wrote: > I suspect one problem might be: > > 1) Most developers are not interested in Foundation affairs. > 2) The Foundation is often minimally staffed with enough members (to vote) > and trustees (to run the foundation legally.) > 3) In the past, the Foundation failed to renew its New Mexico filing (which > was fixed later.) > 4) The status of the Foundation with regards to the US tax organ (the IRS) > is decidedly unclear at this time (but its being worked on.) > > So there is some concern that the Foundation is not being run well in the > current system. Keeping the current system is worrisome (as a current > trustee, I certainly worry about it!) This is one reason why I think the > status quo is a bad idea. But if *that* is the problem, it would be the logical step to disband the Foundation and simply transfer assets to SPI [1,2], which is done quite successfully by a number of important open source projects including Linux distributions Arch and Debian. Best, Matthias [1] http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/ [2] http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/relationship/ --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJYdmYJAAoJELhOzYlK7nn/RZkP/05x1JbS5+6g7WcqhLTm/6ts DLUDub+3df8719pfsNTBvjKXLI9iJFkGaKJxev5ECWd8yQTTEKcyARpW8NWJxpvM ulbCRjBxtyKNyyyJw0IjtXXN+YZ6Htz/STer64KJ799mJ4n9WsqO1k0Bvx6sqa4/ spP12YCIvGBRjBhLQm+I7VFRDfZT5JqiPU/KEQhRVMDgr0vPJt8orNuw/Z2dKdfW Qt/cJApBRoBpPIRtCE3JsbMIZx8BuSQI9Wr0Qjvy5zyMIULQH1jBjvmAJYys8g2Q Ger3Xyx0OV3Q8cHRWSVml4ZE85Q+UmUV7a9K1wPdwL+ox1csQNO6FXnL3YR9HcC4 am6KYyhpurhc7LMHx1DhqcQnJQzO4Oc/UwGCR8sNNKVhE6U5J/djqtoRJvQp5btz emxBa63i0CROWy9dRG59at05uR+s0QQPbCl9QLa/xTU5/oT2qLhDjikmLv7coxQ+ dXRjv2sHs/6wnI9AUjgVar4Pqa5xLp4QtMDP0RkeMY+uCnMZGjEN2j000WrSoaau 2foHKa6WIRwGesJLboGHBWWCiRO0uM0SBXKrtgsPxDBRVUbzdA1+G/rJBLoUuDr+ jO/Hh2woqxVUXeHtrYka6cmHiwS8Cv9a86/eD+HixbBqPIX4jykWgGwHZH5S1zDb BCcZ2l4g3dKtiJ4lhrCp =aFk8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--