On 27 Apr, indieterminacy wrote: (...) > I would like to point out that (probably through oversight) the Guix > Foundation's Solidarity Advisory Council is not currently treated as > equivalent to a Team. (...)
As I understand it the Guix Foundation has a mission of: goal of promoting, using and developing software and operating systems that respect users’ freedoms, supporting in particular usages in research and education without any commercial goal. The Association is specially dedicated to supporting the GNU Guix project. Thanks to Julien's (I think) translation of the Statutes [0]. > SAC membership has limited governance prerogatives of Guix as a legal entity > and necessitates identity towards French regulations. > Yeah, I did just read the translated section on the Solidarity Advisory Council and it made my head spin! But, what I got was that they are a representation of all the members, and two of them sit on a Board with the President and Treasurer to make all the executive decisions on behalf of the members. > As such, I would argue that this undefined behaviour requires clarity. > I would prefer if some elder considered neutral on any outstanding GDCs > could form an opinion in order to resolve this bug. (...) It makes sense that we want clarity over how the two are related. It looks like the Council is voted in from the members at the General Assembly. So not quite sure whether that should be set as a Team, or how it would work. Probably Simon and Tanguy can chime in with how they understand it. We don't necessarily need a Team to clarify how it all fits together. For example, Gentoo do quite a nice job on their Wiki explaining how they are organised [1]. I'm sure we could do something similar. > If such a remedy is uncouth or the configuration of GDCs or Teams already > considered higher ranking, then I suppose I shall have to bother you > collectively with a GDC or ankle biting during Guix Days :thunder: (...) Heh! > ... Of course there can be justifiable reasons for formalising what the SAC > is and what it isnt within a dedicated GDC. > However, from what I have so far perceived the last few months there are no > reasons for perturbation. Agreed, the fact that we have a servicable bank account that can receive money. And that the Foundation is able to pay for things is really good news. Also - for those of you who may not know - want to take a moment to appreciate all the hard work that Simon, Andreas, Julien, Tanguy (and I'm sure others) have put into the Foundation/GCD's - it's really great! Steve / Futurile [0] https://foundation.guix.info/statutes/statuts-201602-en.pdf [1] https://www.gentoo.org/inside-gentoo/foundation/
