On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 6:23 AM Simon Lees
On 23/02/2019 01:52, Tomas Chvatal wrote:
Ana Martínez píše v Pá 22. 02. 2019 v 15:33 +0100:
El vie., 22 feb. 2019 a las 15:26, Sarah Julia Kriesch (
) escribió: Such long discussions because of the GSoC money and problems to forward this to openSUSE events has been one reason to vote for the openSUSE Foundation. If we were independently, we would be able to use the money for such cases such as the openSUSE Asia Summit. The donation for GNOME and KDE has been a compromise. I am looking forward to the decisions of our new openSUSE Board.
This is only a problem is SUSE gets the money (because of the reasons Richard mentioned already). But in this case, the GSoC money is in the Payoneer account of one of our GSoC admins, which means that we can send the money wherever we want.
You do realize redirecting funds like this is not most probably legal even for non-profit organizations right?
Given the board couldn't direct funds through SUSE to openSUSE to be as safe as possible we wanted to make sure that the funds end up with a registered not for profit organisation, given that the donations were originally intended for "Mentoring" even if google said we can use them for whatever Gnome and KDE seemed like a good choice as they are registered not for profits do work with mentoring and a large number of openSUSE users end up using there software somewhere.
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Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net
Hi All, Thanks for any insights you bring to this thread. I feel motivated if every Board member or retired Board member speak up about interesting subject, well the subject is Board Meeting Minutes :-). I can imagine how hard the discussion on the table when it happened There are 2 opposite sites with each site has their own reasons and logic. You guys rock..... Ary asked about the possibility to add TSP budget, nothing more. I believe it is based on his experienced, he went to oSAS 2017 in Tokyo. At that time he still as an university student and going abroad for many Indonesian student is something luxurious, they cannot imagine even in their dream :-) I cannot speak for other Asian countries, but in the last oSAS in Taipei, I've been told by one community member from Japan, it was his first time to went abroad. I know openSUSE needs many young blood, new generation for the future of openSUSE, young contributors. IMHO being in the corner of the world for such a long time I do see so many potential in Asian region, whether it is just a population, a demographic bonus which is composition of young people is in the middle of normal curve, or smart and creative stock of young generation. The problem is not all of these young generation have the same opportunity like people in the west. In Indonesia case, I should add they are also too shy :-). People said being smart and intelligence are something but opportunity is another playing field. So IMO openSUSE.Asia Summit is a kind of opportunity for these young generation, like we open a door and let them in. If we are lucky, in return we will attract young fellow to become contributor hopefully we get the smartest boys/girls in town. Of course like other investment (if we think that oSAS is some kind of investment for openSUSE) we need a plan budget. If board think GSoC budget can be allocated to TSP for oSAS, that it is logic and legal so be it. But if it is illegal and not logic I believe openSUSE Asia Community don't want it. I can understand if the decision has been made and that it will go to KDE/GNOME. I'm afraid if many of our community member especially a young person from Indonesia or other part of Asia read this thread become hot, they become un-motivated and feel too many pressures. Thanks, -- Edwin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org