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dberkholz Retired Dev
Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 1008 Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:58 am Post subject: [NEWS] New foundation trustees elected |
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This forums thread is for discussion of the www.gentoo.org posting, "New foundation trustees elected." Post your comments and suggestions here.
Quote: | New trustees for the Gentoo Foundation were just elected. The foundation takes care of Gentoo's intellectual property (copyrights, trademarks) and money. It ensures that nobody violates our copyrights and trademarks, serves as a place to hold money, and decides where to devote that money in the best interests of Gentoo.
Developers have been voting to elect 5 new trustees for the last couple of weeks, and the developers they elected are:
- Roy Bamford (neddyseagoon)
- Ferris McCormick (fmccor)
- Joshua Jackson (tsunam)
- Tom Gall (tgall)
- William Thomson (wltjr)
The agenda for the first meeting includes discussion of incorporation, the bylaws and future plans. The meeting will be 1900 UTC Sunday, March 16 in #gentoo-trustees on irc.freenode.net, and it is open for all to attend. |
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V-Li Retired Dev
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:25 am Post subject: |
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Congratulations to the new trustees and that they may have more luck and thanks to the election officials. |
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Stealth n00b
Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Salerno
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:13 am Post subject: Congratulations :) |
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Congratulations |
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Airhardt n00b
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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Congratulations to the new trustees!
Trying to access the Gentoo Foundation page however gives me a 403 error.
http://www.gentoo.org/foundation/ wrote: | Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /foundation/ on this server.
Apache Server at www.gentoo.org Port 80
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Zev n00b
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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Congratulations, will have to tune in the 16th to see what kind of plans they have for the future. |
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nichoj Retired Dev
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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The foundation link should be:
http://www.gentoo.org/foundation/en/
I've committed a fix for it, so it should make it to the front page shortly. _________________ Joshua Nichols
Gentoo/Ruby Developer |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54237 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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I would like to thank the election officials for overseeing the election and I look forward to working with my fellow trustees, implementing the things in our election manifestos.
While I'm writing, I would like to remind everyone that the Gentoo Foundation has as one of its declared aims to further the best interests of Gentoo. Thats the entire Gentoo community, not just developers. That means that everyone has a part to play in the Foundation too _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail. |
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gmtongar Apprentice
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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Good luck and congrats !! _________________ "Did you understand the music, Yoko. Or was it all in vain" - r.waters |
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MannyNix n00b
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Kensai Guru
Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 569 Location: Puerto Rico
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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Glad to see how Gentoo is once more working towards progress, now, Gentoo is starting to have a vision, lets hope it all does not fade away easily and that Gentoo may build their future on a strong base now. _________________ Gentoo: Gigabyte: nFORCE 2: nVIDIA GeForce 6600: AMD Athlon XP 3200+
Leaving the above specs to immortalize the first system I Installed Gentoo on! |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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We all hold a piece of the Gentoo 'vision'. The Council and the Foundation can only provide focus so that the vision is clear to everyone.
Its your Gentoo as much as anyone elses. When even one piece of the vision is lost, Gentoo is poorer for it.
Both the Council and the Foundation need the communities continuing support. _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
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Kensai Guru
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:39 am Post subject: |
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NeddySeagoon wrote: | We all hold a piece of the Gentoo 'vision'. The Council and the Foundation can only provide focus so that the vision is clear to everyone.
Its your Gentoo as much as anyone elses. When even one piece of the vision is lost, Gentoo is poorer for it.
Both the Council and the Foundation need the communities continuing support. |
Nice perspective, if we all thought the same, it would make things better. _________________ Gentoo: Gigabyte: nFORCE 2: nVIDIA GeForce 6600: AMD Athlon XP 3200+
Leaving the above specs to immortalize the first system I Installed Gentoo on! |
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valkyrite Apprentice
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:23 am Post subject: |
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Congratulations to all the elected trustees. |
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NathanZachary Moderator
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:04 am Post subject: |
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Congrats to all the elected trustees! _________________ “Truth, like infinity, is to be forever approached but never reached.” --Jean Ayres (1972)
---avatar cropped from =AimanStudio--- |
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Ferris Retired Dev
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks to all for the kind words. As Kensai says, we intend to "work toward progress" and build for the future. It has already been mentioned, I think, but Trustees meetings are open and held on IRC #gentoo-trustees (freenode). The first is Sun., 16 March at 1900UTC and we encourage all to attend.
Regards, |
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Rad Guru
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:43 am Post subject: |
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Congratulations!
I have a really good feeling about this. |
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dilbot Apprentice
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:38 pm Post subject: Thanks! |
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I'm glad things are progressing at Gentoo - the best distro available. My entire company
is built around Gentoo servers and clients (3 offices, 6 people), so this is a relief. |
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teknomage1 Veteran
Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 1239 Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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Congrats to everyone, especially neddyseagoon. Hopefully this is the start of an exciting new chapter for the gentoo community. |
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