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I believe that is a good way to go, to offer marketing space and perhaps other marketing possibilities for the sponsors. That is a much preferred option than cutting off the community from certain publishers, or other "cut offs", because that would only cause bad blood. Best regards from/Med vänliga hälsningar från Johan Kragsterman Capvert -----"OmniOS-discuss" <omnios-discuss-boun...@lists.omniti.com> skrev: ----- Till: omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com Från: Guenther Alka Sänt av: "OmniOS-discuss" Datum: 2017-11-28 14:00 Ärende: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Investing into the Future of OmniOS Community Edition hello Tobias During a contact with a storage systemhouse that intends to offer OmniOS as an additional storage OS, I asked about sponsoring of OmniOS ce and I was asked if there would be an option of something like a gold/silver/bronce patron to bepublished on the patron page. Gea Am 27.11.2017 um 13:52 schrieb Tobias Oetiker: > Hi Stephan, Hi Guenther > > the proforma invoice, yes we will look into that ... what we also discussed > is offering some repo with pre compiled packages for a fee. but we are not > there yet. still trusting that users realize that omnios does not create > itself out of thin air. applying some business logic and risk analysis should > make this abundantly clear to most people with business responsibilities. > > cheers > tobi > > ----- On Nov 27, 2017, at 10:52 AM, Stephan Budach stephan.bud...@jvm.de > wrote: > >> +1 >> >> Cheers, >> Stephan >> >> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- >>> Von: "Guenther Alka" <a...@hfg-gmuend.de> >>> An: "omnios-discuss" <omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com> >>> Gesendet: Montag, 27. November 2017 10:15:47 >>> Betreff: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Investing into the Future of OmniOS Community >>> Edition >>> >>> hello Tobias >>> >>> A pure donation modell (pay for something that is available for free) >>> is >>> only ok for small amounts from private persons. >>> >>> Can this be extended by >>> - a function to request a quotation with a given amount together with >>> a >>> (pro forma) invoice online what makes institutional/edu payments >>> possible >>> (to accept this quotation, pay the amount until..) >>> >>> - with some sort of an extra offer over the free offerings >>> maybe a Pro subscription to beta/ bloody releases, a knowledgebase or >>> a >>> plus repository >>> >>> Gea >>> >>> >>> Am 26.11.2017 um 23:31 schrieb Tobias Oetiker: >>>> Hi All >>>> >>>> tl;tr? head over to https://omniosce.org/patron and support your >>>> favorite OS with a regular donation. >>>> >>>> Since the OmniOS Community Edition Association has taken over >>>> maintenance and care of OmniOSce, things have been moving at a >>>> brisk pace. >>>> >>>> * Upstream changes from Illumos and Joyent are integrated weekly >>>> into our github repo. >>>> >>>> * Security fixes are normally available within hours. >>>> >>>> * We have committed to an elaborate long term release plan. >>>> >>>> * In early November we have released OmniOS r24 on schedule with >>>> many enhancements. >>>> >>>> * Our new website has a lot of new content on feeding and care >>>> of your OmniOS instance. >>>> >>>> Judging from the 566 systems that have been switched over to our >>>> new repos, downloading regular updates, we think there is ample >>>> interest in OmniOS. Not even taking into account all those who >>>> have not yet upgraded. >>>> >>>> With the release of OmniOSce r24 we have created the OmniOS Patron >>>> Page where you can set up regular contribution or a one time >>>> donation to the project. >>>> >>>> Unfortunately only very few people have yet made the step of >>>> actually pledging funds. According to the straw poll conducted in >>>> spring, there should be at least 80k USD per year available to >>>> those who maintain and release updates for OmniOS. >>>> >>>> At the moment we are getting about 25 USD per month from 4 >>>> individuals. This is pretty bleak and does not even begin to cover >>>> the cost of running the show and certainly does not allow us to >>>> plan for the future. >>>> >>>> Head over to https://omniosce.org/patron and let us know how much >>>> you value OmniOS and our work. If everybody spent just 20 dollar >>>> per system and month things would be looking much brighter >>>> already. >>>> >>>> To put this into perspective: a single O365 Enterprise license >>>> costs 35 USD/month. Most individuals pay a similar amount every >>>> month for the internet connection or mobile phone contract. >>>> >>>> Andy Fiddaman >>>> Dominik Hassler >>>> Tobi Oetiker >>>> >>>> -- >>>> OmniOS Community Edition Association >>>> Aarweg 17, 4600 Olten, Switzerland >>>> www.omniosce.org >>>> i...@omniosce.org >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> OmniOS-discuss mailing list >>>> OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com >>>> http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss >>>> >> _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
