Re: Question to Brian: why not submit your plan for a Debian Foundation to a GR ?

2020-03-18 Thread Brian Gupta
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 6:55 PM Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6:41:42 PM EDT Brian Gupta wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 4:30 PM Neil McGovern wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:57:55AM +0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > > * Louis-Philippe Véronneau

Re: Question to Brian: why not submit your plan for a Debian Foundation to a GR ?

2020-03-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6:41:42 PM EDT Brian Gupta wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 4:30 PM Neil McGovern wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:57:55AM +0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > * Louis-Philippe Véronneau [2020-03-18 12:52]: > > > > Would you care to elaborate on what "the Yorba

Re: Question to Brian: why not submit your plan for a Debian Foundation to a GR ?

2020-03-18 Thread Brian Gupta
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 4:30 PM Neil McGovern wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:57:55AM +0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Louis-Philippe Véronneau [2020-03-18 12:52]: > > > Would you care to elaborate on what "the Yorba determination" is? I > > > couldn't find anything online about

Re: Question to Brian: why not submit your plan for a Debian Foundation to a GR ?

2020-03-18 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:57:55AM +0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Louis-Philippe Véronneau [2020-03-18 12:52]: > > Would you care to elaborate on what "the Yorba determination" is? I > > couldn't find anything online about this... > > There was a time when the IRS didn't approve any new

Re: Question to Brian: why not submit your plan for a Debian Foundation to a GR ?

2020-03-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Louis-Philippe Véronneau [2020-03-18 12:52]: > Would you care to elaborate on what "the Yorba determination" is? I > couldn't find anything online about this... There was a time when the IRS didn't approve any new 501(c)(3) applications for open source related organizations and basically put

Re: Question to Brian: why not submit your plan for a Debian Foundation to a GR ?

2020-03-18 Thread Louis-Philippe Véronneau
On 20-03-18 04 h 36, Neil McGovern wrote: > Hi Brian, > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 12:53:10AM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: >>> I understand coming up with a solid business plan for a "Debian >>> Foundation" is not something that can be done in a few weeks. >> >> You are correct. It's going to take

Re: Question to Brian: why not submit your plan for a Debian Foundation to a GR ?

2020-03-18 Thread Louis-Philippe Véronneau
On 20-03-18 00 h 53, Brian Gupta wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 12:52 PM Louis-Philippe Véronneau > wrote: >> >> Hi Brian, >> >> The idea of having a Debian Foundation sounds interesting, although I do >> share some of tbm's fears. >> >> From what I understand, you want this DPL election to be

Re: Question to Brian: why not submit your plan for a Debian Foundation to a GR ?

2020-03-18 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Brian, On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 12:53:10AM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > > I understand coming up with a solid business plan for a "Debian > > Foundation" is not something that can be done in a few weeks. > > You are correct. It's going to take 6-12 months of work to create the > foundation, >

Re: Question to Brian: why not submit your plan for a Debian Foundation to a GR ?

2020-03-17 Thread Brian Gupta
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 12:52 PM Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > The idea of having a Debian Foundation sounds interesting, although I do > share some of tbm's fears. > > From what I understand, you want this DPL election to be a referendum on > the idea of a Debian Foundation.

Question to Brian: why not submit your plan for a Debian Foundation to a GR ?

2020-03-17 Thread Louis-Philippe Véronneau
Hi Brian, The idea of having a Debian Foundation sounds interesting, although I do share some of tbm's fears. From what I understand, you want this DPL election to be a referendum on the idea of a Debian Foundation. It would be really hard for me to vote for you without having a clearer idea of