On 21/06/2019 17:46, Vincent Untz wrote:
Hi Simon,
Le vendredi 21 juin 2019 à 11:11 +0930, Simon Lees a écrit :
On 21/06/2019 01:22, Vincent Untz wrote:
Le mercredi 19 juin 2019 à 22:55 +0930, Simon Lees a écrit :
*Proposed Charter* - openSUSE Foundation is a legal entity having been founded on the date of xxxxxxx with the following identity: yyyyyyyyy.
[...]
*Other Considered Options* - e. V. (association)
Having excluded the e.V. means that there have been some thoughts about the type of legal entity we're talking about. Do you have more details on this?
(eg: which country would it be estabished in? if in the US, what kind of non-profit organization? etc.)
We looked at a German e.V (eingetragener Verein), the two main concerns were that the charter is not set in stone, so theoretically a group of people could join as members over time and then decide to change the charter / purpose of the foundation. The way the foundation board is structured also has more restrictions so we would not be able to allow SUSE to appoint someone to the board. Where as the Foundation approach we are looking at has disadvantages in terms of being far more expensive and more complex to setup it gives us alot more flexibility to maintain governance structures similar to the ones we currently have and the charter can never be changed. Additionally SUSE has thus far indicated they are happy to help cover the setup costs etc.
Thanks, that's a good explanation as why the e.V. is less desired.
However I'm still wondering what kind of organization is being considered: German one? (I'm not clear if there's even something besides e.V.) American 501(c)(3) one? French one?
My guess, based on what you described, is that it'd be a 501(c)(3) organization based in the US. Is that correct, or is it not decided yet in the proposal?
Sorry, this is probably something we missed, currently we are proposing a German "Stiftung" This is the same type of foundation The Document Foundation is using. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org