<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Matthias Maier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tamiko@gentoo.org" target="_blank">tamiko@gentoo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017, at 10:56 CST, Alec Warner <<a href="mailto:antarus@gentoo.org">antarus@gentoo.org</a>> wrote:<br> <br> > I suspect one problem might be:<br> ><br> > 1) Most developers are not interested in Foundation affairs.<br> > 2) The Foundation is often minimally staffed with enough members (to vote)<br> > and trustees (to run the foundation legally.)<br> > 3) In the past, the Foundation failed to renew its New Mexico filing (which<br> > was fixed later.)<br> > 4) The status of the Foundation with regards to the US tax organ (the IRS)<br> > is decidedly unclear at this time (but its being worked on.)<br> ><br> > So there is some concern that the Foundation is not being run well in the<br> > current system. Keeping the current system is worrisome (as a current<br> > trustee, I certainly worry about it!) This is one reason why I think the<br> > status quo is a bad idea.<br> <br> </span>But if *that* is the problem, it would be the logical step to disband<br> the Foundation and simply transfer assets to SPI [1,2], which is done<br> quite successfully by a number of important open source projects<br> including Linux distributions Arch and Debian.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It might be a logical step (I'm unconvinced it is the *only* logical step.) Hence this whole thread, no? :)</div><div><br></div><div>-A</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br> Best,<br> Matthias<br> <br> [1] <a href="http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.spi-inc.org/<wbr>projects/</a><br> [2] <a href="http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/relationship/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.spi-inc.org/<wbr>projects/relationship/</a><br> </blockquote></div><br></div></div>