On 06/07/18 15:12, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 03/07/18 14:33, Simon Lees wrote:
On 03/07/18 01:02,hellcp@opensuse.org wrote: <pruned>
So maybe it's time again to open up discussion about Foundation, but this time have it result in something more substancial than before. So because you asked about this I can say that the board has been discussed the idea of having a separate bank account / foundation since the last face to face (Note this is very different from financial independence for reasons I will outline below)
The reasoning for this is completely different and stems from well before any of us knew about SUSE's change of ownership (we all found that out yesterday as well). Last year we had an issue where Google was unable to sponsor openSUSE to send some of its people to a google summer of code event, this was because SUSE's budget was frozen so they could not accept the money then spend it.
Why was "SUSE's budget" "frozen"? In what way and by what means was it "frozen"?
See Richard and Christians replies, but essentially it meant no additional spending could be made other then what had already been approved.
We also have similar issues at times accepting monetary sponsorship for conferences etc. 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.
Are you sure that you have this right?
In terms of what we are talking about here, having an account that 3rd party donors can put funds in and the openSUSE project can then spend those funds yes. In terms of having a separate account that SUSE then puts all its openSUSE sponsorship money into absolutely not but thats not what we are looking at here. -- 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