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

[Alasdair Lumsden]

On 06/09/2012 20:27, Ken Gunderson wrote:
> As for Alasdair having resigned as project lead, I would politely ask
>   if we could prevail upon him to re-don his lead hat for this one last
>   action.  Why?  In short; I feel he, likely more than anyone, has the
>   community's trust.

Hi Ken,

Sure I don't mind providing some input on this...

I think OI is a member of the illumos family and I'd be more than happy 
for the illumos foundation to take donations on our behalf, as long as 
it's earmarked for OI use specifically. If someone wants to donate to OI 
rather than illumos, it makes sense for it to be ringfenced. (Otherwise 
they'd just donate to illumos).

It may be worth illumos setting up some kind of method of taking 
donations via something like PayPal. The illumos website could let 
people donate to illumos, and the OpenIndiana website could let people 
donate to OpenIndiana (but via the same facility), with some way of 
differentiating between the payments so they can be earmarked for 
illumos-general or OpenIndiana (or other projects that live within the 
illumosphere).

Does that make sense? Or is that too complicated?

I also am happy for it to take a cut of the donations for administrative 
overheads, as long as it's not too excessive. Obviously there is work 
involved in maintaining the foundation.

Cheers,

Alasdair