Dear shibes, (TL;DR below)

I have been pretty quiet so far about the new foundation. At least I have been in public. Instead I had lots of interesting talks with several involved people.

Now that certain things start to get dragged out to the public, I feel like I should finally speak up and voice my opinion.

A "foundation" in general is a good idea. I'm not against it. It can help the community and the coin and I understand that. Recently though, it feels like the foundation got way more political and I feel like it is involved in certain things way too much. I don't go into detail about what exactly now, cause I'd be fueling stuff that finally started to stop burning.

I am not happy about some of the involved parties and I am not happy about what some more or less involved parties seemingly want to do with the foundation. I am also not happy that the foundation in form of members didn't know how to approach certain things in public with their positions in mind.

This all lead to things burning around here, on the sub and extended to the public.

In my opinion, a foundation is for community and charity, the things that made Dogecoin to what it is today. I'm speaking here as Dogecoin Core lead developer. This is a rather technical role. The dev team itself is also rather loosely organized. And I think it worked fine by now.

Why do I talk about this?
Because there has been loads of confusion about things in relation to developers and the foundation. I am not hating against the new foundation. But I want something to be clear once and for all:

The Dogecoin Core development will stay independant. This not only covers the foundation but each and every other entity.

Before this leads to confusion: I know that we have more than one fund held by outside entities. I'm here talking about taking development stuff under their cover in one way or another. If they want for example sponsor a feature addition (and it's a sane one) then they can freely do this.
But those are too run by the team. What I don't want though is having to run them by any outside entity.

That being said, I also declined the offer to join the new foundation as member. I am still in contact with them though. Main reason is here that I don't have the time at hands to really contribute in a way that I'd be personally happy with. But as how things have progressed, I'm also declining because I don't want to fuel the politics revolving around it by now further.

I don't intend to build walls around development. The team has been open to the community before and it will stay so. We have asked for community feedback and will continue to do so. I intend to stop part of this discussion and confusion cause it doesn't lead anywhere good.

The foundation should concentrate on what it is about by definition. Not politics to say the least. Not personal attacks, not causing confusion with statements out of context, not pursuing anything not related to what they were set up for. I dearly hope that the foundation will be able to help the coin and its community and that it will never overstep any lines.

Since we are talking about confusion. There has been some about "Dogecoin CoreDev PR /u/Sporklin". While we generally don't have fixed roles, this is perfectly fine from the dev standpoint. Comments under this signature are run by the team and are to be considered official. Please respect that.

I know you'll have questions and I'll try to answer them below.

TL;DR:
Dev will stay independent, foundation is for community and charity, no entity should try to cover or control dev, I'm not in the foundation myself, it should never overstep their duties and be careful about how to approach things.

-langer_hans
Edit: Thanks for the gold o.O