From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GxJwt-0007Ql-F3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:10:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBL96f3o028166; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:06:41 GMT Received: from lancia.kaluga.ru (mx.kaluga.ru [62.148.128.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBL90OxK001112 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:00:25 GMT Received: from pavillion ([62.148.150.64]) by lancia.kaluga.ru (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBL90Npx025681 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:00:23 +0300 (MSK) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:00:28 +0300 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy? From: "Andrey Gerasimenko" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <49bf44f10612180647g6ac243ebm9cfa8b79a5aeb3b5@mail.gmail.com> <200612182155.11490.mrugeshkarnik@gmail.com> <49bf44f10612191758q758d484fh4f783b651e809b06@mail.gmail.com> <45889E9D.4020508@gmail.com> <20061220230326.GN21525@woodpecker.gentoo.org> Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20061220230326.GN21525@woodpecker.gentoo.org> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.10 (Win32) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id kBL96f4J028166 X-Archives-Salt: b772605a-106b-4368-9450-cccc735c8b33 X-Archives-Hash: 5b70d5415a525cdf13808f35af442f3a On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:03:26 +0300, Bryan =C3=98stergaard =20 wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 12:16:04PM +0300, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: >> Is the non-profit organization side of Gentoo healthy? My brief Google >> session does not reveal anything that suggests it is not, but if =20 >> somebody >> can and may comment on this, please do so. > What do you mean by healthy? There's a number of important issues the > Trustees have to work out but we're getting lots (for some value of > lots) of donations, improving conference attendance etc. > > The non-profit organisation haven't existed very long so there's > obviously going to be a number of issues still to be worked out but all > in all I think it's getting better. But if you'd be so kind as to defin= e > what you mean by healthy I'm sure I could help with more insights. > Your post is actually the answer. If insiders feel it is healthy, then it= =20 most likely is healthy. As for my definition of healthy, it is simple: a healthy organization is = =20 not likely to quit its activities, mainly due to financial problems, in =20 the next 10 years. If the "likely" is to be defined, then a healthy =20 organization has less chances to quit in the next 10 years than 70% of al= l =20 the same domain organizations that exist today. As for the next question, I am not sure that it is worth answering it, =20 possibly there is a better way to use your time, but you may still find i= t =20 interesting to know what a common user may be thinking about. Are there any plans to make a business from Gentoo, any time in the =20 future? Are there people who work on Gentoo full time? Does the profit =20 from the Gentoo Store cover some visible part of the Gentoo expenses? As you can see, the questions are provoked by the news I heard about =20 Ubuntu, Debian, and Mandriva. --=20 Andrei Gerasimenko --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list