The author of this mail belongs the following group: - Ludovic Courtès - Andreas Enge - Carlos O’Donell - Mark Wielaard - Andy Wingo They are the ones behind the gnu.tools domain, which is not affiliated with the GNU project, but do constantly use the phrase "The GNU Project" in a way that it appears as if they are speaking on behalf of the GNU project, which is not the case.
On Sun, 09 Feb 2020 22:50:32 +0100 Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > Dear FSF, > > In response to your call for input regarding the future of the FSF/GNU > relationship, Mark Wielaard posted proposals back in December on > behalf of several GNU maintainers: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-misc-discuss/2019-12/msg00026.html > > To date, we have not received any feedback. > > The first of these proposals was: > > > * leadership > > > > We believe GNU leadership includes the GNU maintainers who should > > have this discussion together with the FSF. That way, the FSF can > > support the GNU Project as a whole. > > > > More generally, we think it is time for the GNU Project to > > collectively define its governance structure, in a way that > > includes all stakeholders, and that the FSF should facilitate this > > process. > > The announcement posted on February 6th on gnu.org¹ reads: > > Alex Oliva, Henry Poole and John Sullivan (board members or officers > of the FSF), and Richard Stallman (head of the GNU Project), have > been meeting to develop a general framework which will serve as the > foundation for further discussion about specific areas of > cooperation. > > This does not include GNU maintainers who, as stewards for their GNU > packages (and for some of them also as signatories of an agreement > with the FSF for the Working Together Fund), are part of the GNU > leadership and should be equal partners. > > Could you make sure GNU maintainers can take part in these > discussions? > > Thanks in advance, > Ludo’. > > ¹ https://www.gnu.org/gnu/2020-announcement-1.html -- Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com>
