Well I need one to two more people to place their name on the entity we
create. It would be set up that there would be no compensation for members
of the Board and that all revenues collected would go to Code development
and maintenance. I and some others will provide the money for the filing
fees
Thanks for offering to do this. I've been pondering how to hire human
resources to support OI, but somewhat reluctant to post about it as I tried
8-10 years ago without success.
I am *very* interested in contributing money to such an organization on an
annual basis at around $200/yr. In
I have been using Solaris since 1999 and was always impressed with its
stability. If there is interest in putting together a Foundation or
organization for Open Indiana, I will take care of all of the legal aspects
concerning its establishment; however there will have to be other
interested people
Do we need an OI specific organization? Why could this not be handled by the
existing Illumos Foundation? That was what I was going to propose. We're using
the same base OS. So far as I know, OI just adds GUI support. So having the
Illumos Foundation simply maintain a ledger entry for OI
On Wed, 26 May 2021 at 13:26, Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev
wrote:
> Do we need an OI specific organization? Why could this not be handled by the
> existing Illumos Foundation? That was what I was going to propose. We're
> using the same base OS. So far as I know, OI just adds GUI support. So
I just want a way to contribute money to support OI/Illumos. TANSTAFL
I was going to suggest one of the commercial Illumos based companies managing
OI specific work with whatever money was provided and taking a cut to offset
the cost of managing it.
All I want it a way to provide $200-$250
Ok, Just a quick Info mail before everybody gets attached to things.
In the Maintainer call the founding of a Foundation/ or Rather
Association has been discussed quite a bit. And it's in fact a process
that was started once but not with a high priority. Thus far getting in
Volunteers has
