Kostas Koudaras wrote:
I honestly see no actual reason for this to be done as I nowdays see no benefit coming out of it. I was pationately supporting the openSUSE Foundation idea for many years and while I was around I talked to a lot of people of other FOSS organizations/foundations and ended up that even if magically ended up with a foundation(as it is pretty harder to be done in action than in words)
Setting up a foundation is slightly more difficult, among other things because it requires a minimum CHF50'000 capital. A registered association is actually quite easy. We would need 2 people and about CHF500 (registration fees).
many many many troubles will stand in front of us(as a community) and most of them are very hard to handle. You can start by "some" new rules you need in order for this to work and ask yourself who will write those rules (who has the capacity to do it and who doesn't and how can it be claimed and by who?).
In a do-ocracy ...
You can continue by who will found this Foundation? Should those people be the board?
In the beginning the founders are also the board, obviously. They can always be replaced later. Unless you meant our current Board?
I can continue addressing real big problems for many pages and what will we(as a community) get from out of it?
The "real big problems" really aren't that big, Kostas, but your question is valid and that is what jdd started out asking. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (7.3°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org