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

[Ken Gunderson]

At Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:31:21 -0400,
<magnus at yonderway.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:27:02 -0600, Ken Gunderson <kgunders at teamcool.net>
> wrote:
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> > While OI and Illumos should retain and nurture a collaborative
> > relationship, I also think OI should foster and maintain it's own
> > independence, as imho Illumos and Nexenta have not always acted in
> > OI's best interest.  Hence, my vote would be for OI to form it's own
> > foundation.
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> The gift could be used to establish a foundation. 
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> This comes back around to that word that so many people don't like, though:
> "governance".

The foundation doesn't necessarily need to govern anything.  Indeed,
my preference is that it would not.  Rather it just needs to be a
shell legal entity that can deal with legalities such as banking and
copyright type stuff.  The community at large can still direct/weigh
in on decisions w/o a whole lot of change from how things are handled
presently.

Regards-- Ken