On 03/07/18 19:55, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hey,
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, but that's not our plan. As I outlined in my previous email the openSUSE project needs a way to accept sponsorship and pay for things out of said sponsorship when SUSE's budget is frozen. This was an issue for google summer of code last year and has a potential for issues with conference sponsorship for something like the openSUSE asia Summit. So this is an issue that needs to be solved.
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 and has given us a list of options that the board has looked into in the past and decided were unfeasible / not possible so we are not looking at those and are instead looking at some other possible alternatives. -- 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