[oi-dev] is there a vector for donating to OI?

[Deirdre Straughan]

Any further thoughts on this, anyone?

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Garrett D'Amore
<garrett.damore at dey-sys.com>wrote:

> Originally Alasdair indicated that he wanted OI to be part of the illumos
> foundation, so this approach of earmarking the donation makes sense.
>
> Note that in the future I hope that illumos will reserve a percentage of
> earmark donations for its "general fund" but since we have not set up the
> administration to deal with that yet, it seems like right now is a great
> time to donate and ensure that 100% of your donation goes exactly to OI.
>
>   - Garrett
>
> On Sep 5, 2012, at 8:08 PM, Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 5 September 2012 16:47, Deirdre Straughan
> > <deirdre.straughan at joyent.com> wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > I know that it's really none of my business, since I have yet to
> > actually give anything except support/bugs to the community ...
> >
> > I think that the money being placed with the Illumos Foundation, with
> > potential ring-fencing for OI is a sane idea.
> >
> >> .... If large enough, perhaps it
> >> could be used to fund travel for an OI representative at illumos/ZFS
> Days in
> >> October: http://zfsday.com/
> >>
> >> Your thoughts?
> >
> > I personally would prefer it to be set aside for OI specific bounties
> > ... but anything that enables OI to have a more visible/vocal voice in
> > the Illumos community could only be seen as a good thing.
> >
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best regards,
Deirdré Straughan
Community Architect, SmartOS
illumos Community Manager


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