I've seen the phrase "XYZ is 'committed' to ABC" several times on this mail list. It's a very political flowery phrase, and makes everyone feel good..... Until 2 years elapse and there is no real result from the 'committment'.
Has someone formed a legal organization, and filed 501.c3 paperwork, or not? What are the charitable goals? If they have, where do I send a check for my $50 tax-deductible charitable contribution. On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:22:21PM -0400, Dave Botsch wrote: > In part, depends on what you mean by "multi-year commitment". > > And as you mentioned, there is no Foundation to commit anything to. > > To justify any type of commitment to management, there has to be a clear > concrete something, be it the Foundation or YFS to commit to with some > sort of clear return (support, code improvements, now "buying" > "commercial" OpenAFS, whatever)... government funding agency auditors > don't like "donations" or "donations in disguise". > > The commitment, whatever that is, has to be presented as furthering the > mission of the entity making that commitment. And OpenAFS, as a > filesystem, certainly fits that bill, but again, see the above > paragraph. > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 12:17:40PM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > > > The concept of a Foundation was pursued for years and just before the > > economic collapse the Elders were committed to forming it. Your File > > System Inc. was committed at that time to putting up a pool for use in > > matching contributions from end user organizations. After the economic > > collapse it was deemed to risky to attempt to start a Foundation. All > > of the organizations that had privately committed to put funds into the > > pot backed out when large holes appeared in their budgets. > > > > If you believe that your organization is now capable of making a > > multi-year commitment to OpenAFS, please contact [email protected]. > > > > Jeffrey Altman > > > > > > > > -- > ******************************** > David William Botsch > Programmer/Analyst > CNF Computing > [email protected] > ******************************** > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
