Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] OI Foundation

2021-05-26 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] OI Foundation

2021-05-26 Thread Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] OI Foundation

2021-05-26 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] OI Foundation

2021-05-26 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
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