Ned Ludd wrote: [Mon Jul 16 2007, 04:00:44PM CDT] > Long term I worry about the foundation. No offense to anybody. I'm sure > I don't know or understand the problems you/we have encountered along > the way. But I think we need to face it 99.9% of our devs are not > suited to run a foundation such as this. That's not a bad thing in any > such way. Most of us came to this project cuz we are geeks doing geeky > things is what we do best.. > I'm sure some of you get roped into doing the foundation because > you truly love Gentoo and want to see things be taken care of. However > to be frank. I don't think I've seen a single substantial thing > accomplished sense cshields left Gentoo. Please don't take that the > wrong way. I know we are all busy people. Perhaps you guys have done > shitloads and I/we just don't know about it. Perhaps it's still the same > old story.. We are waiting on ABC banks. We can't re-incorp without > XYZ first.
Actually, we have a bank, paypal successfully talks to it, and
I believe that we're completely caught up w/ all of the various funding
requests that we've received. You're point is still a good one,
however.
> Anyway point I'm trying to make here is that I think we might be
> better off using a 3rd party as our foundation. IE people who have
> the experience/motivation and time to focus on such things
> that a foundation should be.
>
> Anyway. I'd like to nominate nobody in-house.
Yeah, I tend to agree. Not-so-coincidentally, Gentoo's been invited to
join the Software Freedom Conservancy, which would provide just the sort
of 3rd-party management that you're suggesting. I put a write-up on my
blog detailing what we know so far:
http://www.grantgoodyear.org/g2blog/gentoo/20070717-sflc.html
I'm cross-posting to -dev, and suggesting that comments be sent
there as well, since most people don't read -nfp.
If you think this is a good idea, a bad idea, or you just want to know
more, now's the time to express your opinion.
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