Dear all, I just put some proposed bylaws for the Gentoo Foundation, Inc on my dev space at:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~g2boojum/bylaws.html http://dev.gentoo.org/~g2boojum/bylaws.xml Comments, criticisms, and patches are welcome. Please note that this set of bylaws is "proposed". I have no desire whatsoever to force these bylaws from "on high", and thus I'm soliciting comments. Also, the decision on who should be a member of the Gentoo Foundation is currently deliberately vague. The reason is that it needs some discussion. The original intention of the Foundation was that the Foundation should hold and protect Gentoo intellectual property, and serve as an organization that can receive (and disburse) donations. The Foundation is not at all involved in Gentoo (the operating system) development. Development responsibilities lie with the various Gentoo top-level project managers and their teams. The proposed bylaws simply state that new members should be nominated by existing members. There has been some thought that all Gentoo devs, or all Gentoo devs that have been productive in Gentoo for longer than a certain period of time, should be members. There has also been an argument made that having 200+ members is going to make obtaining a quorum rather difficult, to say the least. Moreover, would it ever make sense to have a member of the Foundation who is not also a Gentoo developer? Your thoughts? Thanks, g2boojum -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76
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