<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I've received email from someone who wants to make a donation (of unspecified magnitude) to OpenIndiana. They contacted me as manager of the parent illumos community, but I think it right to turn the question over to the OI community. </span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Is there any mechanism in place for taking donations? If (as I suspect) not, the best alternative I can think of is to accept the donation to the illumos Foundation (which is now a legal entity with a bank account and a board, working on by-laws), and earmark it for OI. If large enough, perhaps it could be used to fund travel for an OI representative at illumos/ZFS Days in October: <a href="http://zfsday.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://zfsday.com/</a></div>
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Your thoughts?</div><div><br></div>-- <br><br><br>best regards,<br>Deirdré Straughan<br>Community Architect, SmartOS<div>illumos Community Manager<br><br><br>cell 720 371 4107</div><br>