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| NixOS Foundation | 454 Members |
| Public room for chatting with the NixOS Foundation Board | 115 Servers |
| Sender | Message | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 27 Apr 2024 | ||
 nat-418 | In reply to @zimbatm:numtide.commaybe that is the problem | 09:03:13 |
 Jonas Chevalier | maybe. there is clearly a mismatch of expectations. | 09:04:05 |
 @withoutwithin:matrix.org | for what it's worth, i reached out to the foundation board as a last resort | 09:05:37 |
 Arian | There is no leadership crisis as we never really formally defined leadership of our community. We have a crisis of community in my opinion. It's community members who organise nixcon. And its community members that twice in a row chose Anduril eventhough it was clearly a bad idea to have them sponsor the conference a second time. We need to find way how we as a community solve that. I dont see why people keep putting some appeal to authority on the board here. Whilst it's clearly not set up to provide such authority. We could set it up like that. But it would require something very diffetent | 09:06:23 |
| Arian | I'd require at least one full time paid employee | 09:06:34 |
| Jonas Chevalier | we already increased the bandwidth of the foundation, at personal costs on our personal lives and businesses, to move out of the crisis. | 09:06:44 |
| nat-418 | something like a german e.V. registered voluntary association with a presidium, members, etc. seems reasonable | 09:07:02 |
| Arian | But given we don't really have the level of funds to even sustain that I don't really see how that is currently possible. Unless we double down on getting more corporate sponsors and professionalize the foundation to have a more formal authoritative role in the project | 09:08:26 |
| Jonas Chevalier | it's the same thing with the moderation team where people start making demands, as if they were mere employees. these are also community members are are talking about. | 09:08:37 |
| nat-418 | In reply to @arianvp:matrix.orgmembers could simply pay dues | 09:08:42 |
| nat-418 | Codeberg works like this | 09:08:47 |
| nat-418 | they also have paid staff | 09:10:34 |
 vcunat | That would be a very radical change of philosophy. | 09:12:11 |
| Arian | I suggested a Verein with paid membership a few weeks ago in this chat. Got a lot of pushback on that :'). I'd suggest reading back the discussion . We discussed it quite much in detail | 09:12:25 |
| nat-418 | In reply to @vcunat:matrix.orgI am seeing good people leave the community every day. Seems like radical change may be needed. | 09:13:24 |
| nat-418 | In reply to @vcunat:matrix.org* I am seeing good people leave Nix every day. Seems like radical change may be needed. | 09:13:39 |
| vcunat | You think forcing them to pay would help? | 09:13:39 |
| nat-418 | In reply to @vcunat:matrix.orgIt's not "forced to pay", it's a way to support the project. | 09:14:02 |
| nat-418 | Codeberg community contributors dont have to be paying members of the eV. | 09:14:29 |
 Claes | I think membership with dues could help in two respects: provide financial support and define a constituency for democratic election of leaders, for example to the board. | 09:15:58 |
| Arian | I really urge people to just scroll up a bit. We had this exact discussion :') | 09:17:47 |
| Arian | (I know matrix is terrible for this. I'm sorry) | 09:18:12 |
| Claes | what is "a bit"? Not even sure what to look for. Was it yesterday, last week..? | 09:19:42 |
 leona | starting here i think: https://matrix.to/#/!CJXQiUGqNPcFonEdME:nixos.org/$iEMNQHMGfZPtq3VkND088BszG3V4hzr1SGRZ6GjGa_I?via=nixos.org&via=matrix.org&via=nixos.dev | 09:20:10 |
| Arian | In reply to @arianvp:matrix.orgHere the discussion starts | 09:21:26 |
| Claes | Ok so seems to be some legal hurdles. Still, I think at some point, if the non-commercial part of Nix is to grow, something like that is needed. Perhaps we are not there yet, but where I live even the local kids football club is organized like this. | 09:26:14 |
 Janik (they/them) | In reply to @arianvp:matrix.orghttps://github.com/NixOS/foundation/blob/master/role_and_responsibilities.md#role-of-the-board > Unblock things that would be stuck otherwise, and serve as: > - Arbiter in case of conflicts This was desperately needed with the sponsorship policy but didn't really happen. And if the board doesn't want to take that role that's fine, but then we need some other sort of governance body to do this. It's quite common for growing FOSS projects to introduce something like a governance board. | 09:32:23 |
 erincandescent joined the room. | 09:32:48 | |
| vcunat | To me conflict arbitration feels quite close to moderation. | 09:35:18 |
| vcunat | (but I'm not trying to imply anything about how to improve things) | 09:36:05 |