It's great that you have a lot of free time. It really is. There are a couple of things that I don't understand, however.
I don't have any say (besides the one man-one vote thingy) on iglu, and I will therefor refrain from commenting on whether or not it will be a good idea to host hackers-il there. I also don't know the list well enough. I do have a liability torwards hamakor's bylaws with anything that has to do with beak, and as a result, also some of the say. If you want to host hackers-il there, please send a detailed request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not to me personally, please!), explaining what hackers-il is, why it is promoting Hamakor's goals to host it, and the body that has the authority to decide will do so.
Being eligible for root access has nothing to do with being a member. If you want root access to beak, you will have to prove to the people who are responsible to everything that that machine is doing that you will not dump unrelated things on that machine. Just to give you some context - if you use the root password you are "eligible" to get to, say, host a non-open source related mailing list on beak, and some other Hamakor member asks the police to open a criminal investigation for misapropriating an NPO's resources, I'm the one liable under law (as a board member), at least until Feb 15th (a year more, though to some lesser extent, if I become a comptroller). I think you will understand that I will want to make sure I don't give the root password to people who will not use it carefully enough.
Shachar
P.S.
Criminal liability of the board for actions performed by the body they manage is not a bug, it's a feature. It's a mechanism designed so that people who give their money to an NPO not have to worry that this money is then used for, say, promoting some political candidate, or anything else which falls outside the scope of what the NPO committed to doing.
It doesn't matter whether that other activity is deserving, right, or even noble. For example, Hamakor is not allowed to sponsor shipping of Windows installed computers to poor children. It's not that the cause is not worthy, but that it's outside Hamakor's bylaws. Similarily, we are also not allowed to sponsor non-computer related toys to said children, fight AIDS, or offer rewards for the capture of Ossama Bin Laden. Money given to Hamakor can be used to promote the causes outlined in Hamakor's bylaws, and nothing else.
Shlomi Fish wrote:
A better possibility is beak, which I don't have root access to. Note that I am a hamakor member and so I do believe I am probably eligible for becoming root there.
[1] - I hope you were not offended by me talking a lot about myself. I'm just telling what I can do with my time, because I seem to have a relatively large amount of it right now, which is not the case for other distinguished members of this list.
-- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Systems Consulting http://www.lingnu.com/
