On 03/07/18 21:54, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hey,
On 03.07.2018 13:21, Simon Lees wrote:
On 03/07/18 19:55, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
On 03.07.2018 06:33, Simon Lees wrote:
So yes it makes sense for openSUSE to have its own bank account and openSUSE already has the power to do this without needing to ask SUSE.
Interesting, how so?
Well we can create an account but we can't make SUSE put money in it,
Who is this "we" you talk about? You and?
The openSUSE board acting as the people responsible for the projects finances.
rather then wanting to move all our trademarks / Intellectual Property away from SUSE, currently they are doing a good job looking after that.
We don't have trademarks. SUSE has trademarks. Because there is no "we".
The board has been through this before, maybe it would make sense to invite some of the old board members to your discussions so we don't have to go through this again and again? :-)
We have a Richard who has been on the board for quite some time
I'm sure Richard has done his best to convey second hand what has happened, but as usual that is a lossy process.
Yes I was by no means saying that we may not have all the details, I was more saying that we know that the board looked at various ideas previously and obviously decided against doing anything at that time. The board has decided that if you or any previous board member would like to share your experiences with us on this topic you are more then welcome to join the first part of our next meeting, alternatively you can contact me directly via email, irc, some conferencing format as I am the person researching the various options and will be presenting them to the board.
and has given us a list of options that the board has looked into in the past and decided were unfeasible / not possible
Proving my point above, after very careful consideration we have had chosen a form back then. What about that one?
so we are not looking at those and are instead looking at some other possible alternatives.
Like? :-)
As Richard stated in his email, likely partnering with an existing foundation that provides services such as accepting / helping to manage money for open source projects. The board is pretty interested in a solution that doesn't require openSUSE to start its own foundation as that is a large amount of extra work, but it is generally wise to atleast investigate all alternatives which is why it was mentioned. Cheers -- 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