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List:       gentoo-project
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-project] Groups under the Council or Foundation: the structure & processes thereof
From:       Luca Barbato <lu_zero () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2016-11-13 16:35:13
Message-ID: 2d10df9e-3b46-e316-8ecc-2de63fd8d9d9 () gentoo ! org
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On 13/11/2016 15:53, M. J. Everitt wrote:
> Foundation
> =======
> Legal entity
> Deals with finance
> Deals with compliance
> Provides Infra
> Provides/oversees Staff
> 
> Council
> =====
> Fulfils aim of Linux Distribution
> Oversees projects
> Innovates and develops
> 
> Both are Foundation and Council are elected bodies from the staff
> electorate.
> 
> Anyone with any objections to this structure?
> 

The Foundation happened just because there isn't any other easy way to
legally take monetary sponsorship and reflow it to the project needs and
that's all it should do.

All the misconception spun about how the Council and the other part of
the meta-structure of Gentoo work should stop, since it is getting utter
ridiculous.

(just to be as bold as the initial misguided statement from you)

lu


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