The GUUG wanted to achieve a change there, but the reason for that was that all openSUSE sponsorships went via the SUSE credit card. After many rejected sponsorships based on this reason (see also Mmails by Christian and Simon), we made the suggestion of an own Foundation in the openSUSE Board.

The GUUG didn't want to sign to sponsor SUSE.  The workaround was to make a lunch sponsorship without any SUSE credit card. Afterwards I received the statement that it has been the single openSUSE sponsorship in this direction until there will be the possibility to sponsor the open source project openSUSE. There was nothing special about this specific one. I remember it, and it was just a next one. Talks about an own foundation have been there since the Project exist. Each year openSUSE sent people to GSoC we had issues receiving

Oh,  And I should point out that all the warm feeling that people were getting by buying tshirts etc - unfortunately not of that was going to openSUSE.  Once again: because there was nowhere for it to go. As soon as we got the Geeko Foundation bank accounts up and running, the merch companies poured in at least 5k EUR, all of backlogged funds that had nowhere to go. (I can feel a blog post coming on about that.) /p On 11 Jul 2024 15:33, Knurpht-openSUSE <knurpht@opensuse.org> wrote: Op donderdag 11 juli 2024 14:55:47 CEST schreef Sarah Julia Kriesch: the money from Google. Actually that was one of the 1st things on the table during my 1st Board term. Another good example is the money generated through shop.o.o via 3rd parties. I get your frustration: You find a potential sponsor, and it breaks on matters like this. Been there, did not get it done, no t-shirt. -- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Forums Team openSUSE Mods Team