On 05/05/2011 02:06 AM, Pascal Bleser wrote:
On 2011-05-04 22:41:59 (+0530), Sankar P<sankar.curiosity@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Greg Freemyer<greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:
Is there a company/sponsor that if we sent them the money would agree to buy SSDs for the build farm? I can imagine $8000 in SSDs having a major impact on the build farm. And that in turn could draw in even more obs users/contributors.
I am so impressed by this idea that I have a crazy thought.
Can we have a "Buy SSDs for OBS" fundraiser as part of the next openSUSE conference ? I am not sure if it is a common thing to collect money during a technical conference but I have seen such fundraisers work magic for some of the non-profit organizations in my part of the world.
People who attend the conference can donate whatever they can. Assuming an attendance of about 500 people, 10 EUR from each will give a good number. Can we have this as part of the openSUSE conference ?
Sounds like a good idea, indeed.
But without a foundation, who would collect the monies ? Where would they be deposited ?
Can we even donate money to Attachmate ? Is that even feasible for their accounting, and legal requirements ?
I wouldn't be so sure.
I mean, it's one of the main reasons for having an openSUSE foundation (at least in terms of short term goals): we cannot give money to Novell (or Attachmate, for that matter) and request that money to be used exclusively to sponsor certain things in openSUSE. At least it wasn't an option with Novell.
But hey, if someone wants to "pay me back" on the way more than 1000 EUR I've put on renting opensu.se over the past years... feel free ;D (yeah I know, I'm repeating myself) (Would be better if 4-5 more people would join in on sponsoring that, it's a monthly fee of 100� and if we can divide that through a larger number of people... you get the point.)
thank you for your time *and* money.. maybe this has been discussed to death and rejected, don't know, so: i think it fair enough that the community "pay you back" the money and ask: would it be possible for you to set up a PayPal account where folks could easily send "pay back" donations? [when you have enough, just close the account and say 'thank you'....no, i do not know how to keep your tax man's nose out of the deal--how about: before you close, figure in enough extra to make the tax man happy *and* repay your pocket.. if that is not feasible i'd like to make a donation anyway--please post your bank, account number and password ;-) or, something.. :-) going forward, would it be possible to set up a PayPal account that anyone could to contribute to, but only (say) opensu.se could take from (and thereby avoid the 'tax problem')...then, when the foundation is in place it can take over ownership of account and whatever excess funds might have accumulated therein.. just something to think about, -- dd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org