Board Meeting April 08
6-7:45pm UTC
Federico Mena Quintero (federico1)
Hendrik Vogelsang (henne)
Michael Löffler (michl)
Bryen Yunashko (suseROCKs)
Pascal Bleser (yaloki)
Next Board Meeting April 29th.
Status of old action items
* AI henne, create board blog a
spotlight.opensuse.org
WIP - henne works on getting the url and creates then accounts
* AI all, Member approval
shame on us, we've been pretty slow in approvals. All promised to go
ahead step by step.
* Trademark guide lines
- for feeback please use:
http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Trademark_Guidelines_use_cases
- michl had a conversation with zonker that we should once again
asking activly for feeback, give time for feedback and go ahead, it
looks like a summer task
* Improvment of IRC cloak and email address handling
- yaloki and suseROCKs are now side admins, darix will train them (but
doesn't know about that yet)
* openSUSE Foundation
- creation of a german foundation (e.V.)
- its just some paper work, it needs for the beginning 7 founding
members, the pure cost is not higher than $ 150 -> doable
Pro:
- we can do what we want and are our own master
Con:
- all paperwork and ongoing effort needs to be handled by us
- yaloki put together some information about
http://www.spi-inc.org/about-spi
- pros:
* they take care of the legal shmoo
* they can provide legal assistance if needed
* their board is elected, and we could have someone join their
organization + follow all the discussions, including private
ones
* donations to SPI (and hence to openSUSE) would be tax-deducible
in the USA
* donations can be made in Germany through a NFP (non-for-profit)
there (ffii), as well as in Italy
* they have an online form for donating
- cons:
* SPI owns the money, but transfers to us, as long as it doesn't
conflict with SPI's legal status (a NFP)
* SPI also owns assets (e.g. hardware) we buy through them
* that money + those assets are only transferable to another NFP
in the USA -- that means that if we were to have a NFP on our
own, e.g. an e.V. in Germany like KDE, we wouldn't be able to
transfer the money + assets we had through SPI at that point
* they take 5% of all donations
- henne brought up the idea of using the existing
http://www.lst.de/
LST is an existing german foundation (e.V.) for the support of free
software. Members of LST approached us and offered help
- pro:
- the bureaucracy for e.V. creation is done
- con:
- as it is an existing foundation openSUSE would have at the
beginning no say, so we'd rely on the existing members (majority
are SUSE employees or ex-SUSE ones.)
- all the donation infrastructure needs to be created anyway
Conclusion: everything is possible and each solution has its pros and
cons
AI: michl to set up a wiki page with all the information to get a
better picture
AI: michl to get in contact with LST and discuss further
* openSUSE conference
- program committee meets in a few days
* Membership Advantages
- michl spoke with zonker about a free LWN account for all openSUSE
members. A free LWN acount would cost us not less then $ 2 per person
and month. Assuming 500 members (currently we have 260 but this will
grow) that would mean $ 12k per year.
All Board members agreed that this amount of money can be spent better
for the community.
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