Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2018-04-08

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 12:39:41AM +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 28. März 2018, 00:11:30 CEST schrieb Matthias Maier:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > The next council meeting is in about two weeks. This is the time to
> > raise and prepare items that the council should put on the agenda to
> > discuss or vote on.
> 
> I would like to put the following proposal on the agenda:
> 
> The Gentoo council shall directly contact "Software in the Public Interest 
> Inc." (SPI), with the intention of Gentoo becoming a SPI Associated Project, 
> independent of the Gentoo Foundation.
FYI, the Foundation did ask the SPI about joining, but got an answer
that could best be summarized as, "Fix your problems first and then ask
us again".

In slightly more detail, they felt they did not have the manpower to
take on an existing entity of Gentoo's scale, with it's present issues.

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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer
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