Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (292 mails)

[Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011-05-09 Alan wrote:
> > > > On 5/9/2011 at 11:05 AM, in message
>
> <201105091905.58256.jospoortvliet@xxxxxxxxx>, Jos Poortvliet
>
> <jospoortvliet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Monday 09 May 2011 11:27:10 Vincent Untz wrote:
> > > Le mardi 03 mai 2011, à 12:04 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit :
> > > > Now, it's not too late to change the plan. If you have a better
> > > > suggestion, please tell us. There's no need to argue forever
> > > > about it, just explain why you think it's good. Keep in mind
> > > > that if we cannot receive the money ourselves, this also means
> > > > that we cannot use it to buy stuff for openSUSE.
> > >
> > > Thanks for all the contributions to this discussion. There are a
> > > few things that were probably badly explained in my original mail
> > > but clear in my mind, and they might be useful for everyone who
> > > has suggestions:
> > >
> > > The main issue is "to which bank account should the money be
> > > sent?".
> > >
> > > There are several options:
> > >   - a not-for-profit organization related to openSUSE. Then, the
> > >   money
> > >   
> > >     can be used for hardware like suggested in this thread, or for
> > >     other activities.
> > >   
> > >   - a not-for-profit organization not related to openSUSE. In this
> > >   
> > >     case, this would be a donation on behalf of the openSUSE
> > >     project. I don't think we can reasonably ask most
> > >     organizations to keep the money for us, especially as it
> > >     might be a difficult task to handle from an accounting
> > >     perspective.
> > >     (Except for a few orgs who do that kind of job, like SPI or
> > >     SFC, but that requires some paperwork and I'm not sure we
> > >     want to do that and then create two months later a
> > >     Foundation)
> > >   
> > >   - a for-profit organization (most likely a company). If a
> > >   company
> > >   
> > >     promises to use the money the way we want, for instance. It's
> > >     worth pointing out that we will have no guarantee that the
> > >     money will be used the way we want, and I'm unsure how well
> > >     this works with Google, but we can check.
>
> All,
>
> Working with the SUSE accounts, I have figured out a way that we can
> collect this money and process it through SUSE as long as we apply
> it to openSUSE project expenses directly.  In other words, use it to
> pay for SDDs for OBS etc.  Much harder if we tried to save the money
> towards some future expense.
>
> With this and pascal's request you have some good options to support
> OBS and/or other areas of the openSUSE project.

Points for you, Alan. I wonder - does this help the case where Pascal 
and his team don't have a good way to receive the money? In other words, 
can we buy some hardware for them from the GSOC monies?

> regards,
>
> Alan Clark