RE: Rebranding of the Project
I think the point is that until the foundation was set up, there was nowhere for donations to go to. If you wanted to donate money to openSUSE, it would have to go to SUSE... * who wants to donate to a commercial enterprise? * even if you did, SUSE are not set up to receive donations. It'd get sent back with a note saying "what is this for?" The Geeko Foundation has already raised significant amounts simply by existing with bank accounts. We are planning to reach UK Charity status shortly (from being a not-for-profit) which will be even better. /p -----Original message----- From: Lukáš Krejza <gryffus@hkfree.org> Sent: Thursday 11th July 2024 12:18 To: project@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: Rebranding of the Project Hey, Dne čtvrtek 11. července 2024 9:37:42, SELČ, Attila Pinter napsal(a):
You will laugh, but I had people come up to me straight up telling me that they don't understand the relationship between openSUSE and SUSE and they go back to using whatever distro they came from, and wouldn't even consider contributing to "SUSE's pocket". Some others just don't like SUSE so they refuse also. Rebranding, and having a clear differentiation between the two is a pretty good solution to this issue, and we should probably do it until we're being asked nice, and we can.
-- Br, A.
So... Do potential donors nowadays have a negative perception if a commercial company supports a project with a Libre license or a community? How hard is it to explain it's the opposite and how licensing works? Right, it's like people who dislike RedHat are donating to Fedora. Or people who dislike Canonical donating to Ubuntu. Regards, Gfs
Indeed. Even trying to route internal conference sponsorships to the right place requires constant tracking to ensure it lands whole. I don't believe this is a SUSE-specific thing. It's more an artifact of it being a commercial business where, by default, incoming funds are treated as revenue. -Jeff On 7/11/24 07:21, Patrick Fitzgerald wrote:
I think the point is that until the foundation was set up, there was /nowhere/ for donations to go to.
If you wanted to donate money to openSUSE, it would have to go to SUSE...
* who wants to donate to a commercial enterprise? * even if you did, SUSE are not set up to receive donations. It'd get sent back with a note saying "what is this for?"
The Geeko Foundation has already raised significant amounts simply by existing with bank accounts.
We are planning to reach UK Charity status shortly (from being a not-for-profit) which will be even better.
/p
-----Original message----- *From:* Lukáš Krejza <gryffus@hkfree.org> *Sent:* Thursday 11th July 2024 12:18 *To:* project@lists.opensuse.org *Subject:* Re: Rebranding of the Project
Hey,
Dne čtvrtek 11. července 2024 9:37:42, SELČ, Attila Pinter napsal(a): > You will laugh, but I had people come up to me straight up telling me that > they don't understand the relationship between openSUSE and SUSE and they > go back to using whatever distro they came from, and wouldn't even consider > contributing to "SUSE's pocket". Some others just don't like SUSE so they > refuse also. Rebranding, and having a clear differentiation between the two > is a pretty good solution to this issue, and we should probably do it until > we're being asked nice, and we can. > > -- > Br, > A.
So... Do potential donors nowadays have a negative perception if a commercial company supports a project with a Libre license or a community? How hard is it to explain it's the opposite and how licensing works?
Right, it's like people who dislike RedHat are donating to Fedora. Or people who dislike Canonical donating to Ubuntu.
Regards, Gfs
-- Jeff Mahoney VP Engineering, Linux Systems
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