Ferris McCormick <fmc...@gentoo.org> posted 20090504114734.30329...@anaconda.krait.us, excerpted below, on Mon, 04 May 2009 11:47:34 +0000:
> For what it's worth (probably not much) I think Foundation is > functioning now. At least, we are legal again, have bylaws, and a real > bank account. I should have stated so directly, but FWIW I agree. I'm on the NFP list as I have been since 2004 (when I started with Gentoo), so I know the general status. I did say I thought that was the low point and that Gentoo had turned the corner since then, but given that I DID list it as a low point, it would have been only proper to specifically mention that I think it has come back from the brink (which it was over, but you guys pulled it back! =:^) too. So thanks for pointing that out, and thanks too, to you and the other foundation folks, for all the time and effort you've put into pulling it back from over the brink, as you have. That's no small thing, even if by original design the foundation is separated enough from the day-to-day and technical Gentoo side that it seldom comes up here or in most other Gentoo discussions, and few enough even know about it, let alone stop to say thanks once in awhile. It's certainly not every dev (or user, as I am) that either has the skills for that sort of thing, or even cares about it, so the least we can do is give you a round of thanks for taking on what most of us would prefer not even to have to think about at all. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
