[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Foundation

Thu May 27 06:34:22 UTC 2021

I leave where to spend the funds if any to the developers who have more
experience. What has to be decided first is who will put their names 'in
the hat'. I can create an entity with one or two people but I think at
least 3-4 or more  would be a better number to start with. at least one or
two should really have deeper Solaris experience. I understand some coding,
but I am more of a systems person. I think if there is to be a future for
Solaris there will have to be some type of organization behind us. Similar
to FREEBSD I think.

Best wishes,
Gerry

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On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 1:46 AM Andreas Wacknitz <A.Wacknitz at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 27.05.21 um 00:01 schrieb Till Wegmueller:
> > Ok, Just a quick Info mail before everybody gets attached to things.
> >
> > In the Maintainer call the founding of a Foundation/ or Rather
> > Association has been discussed quite a bit. And it's in fact a process
> > that was started once but not with a high priority. Thus far getting
> > in Volunteers has been a higher priority rather than Organising cash
> > or governance.
> >
> > I get the benefits of a Foundation and a central spot to look at in
> > Governance, but thus far we are one core developer (Andreas Wacknitz)
> > and supporting maintainers. I love the initiative and
> I really hope that the situation regarding maintainers will change in
> the future. We have some "dormant" core maintainers who aren't be able
> to dedicate the time they used to spend for OI at the moment. Maybe that
> will change back. And maybe we will find new core maintainers, too.
> After all it's not rocket science and we all started at the same level.
>
> > Engagement that people bring here. And it's needed. But we don't need
> > an official Signoff space yet. If people are willing to invest into
> > development, we are not holding you guys back. But please be aware who
> > you are and how much you have to do with the OI and in fact illumos
> > brand and if another name is not more appropriate for an outside
> > initiated initiative. ;)
> The idea of funding development is nice. If you want to support
> distributions in the illumos world you can do that in different ways.
> Eg. OmniOS is driven by companies. You can help them by buying support
> contracts (https://omnios.org/invoice.html) or becoming a patron
> (https://omnios.org/patron.html).
> Then there is also Tribblix, which can also be used as a desktop:
> http://www.tribblix.org/
> I don't know how to help/fund Peter. Maybe you can ask him directly.
>
> Back to OpenIndiana: it's more or less the direct successor of
> OpenSolaris (at least for the open source world). We'll automatically
> get changes from illumos-gate. This is typically new or enhanced drivers
> for devices the commercial entities are interested (read: network and
> storage or general enhancements like BHyVE, KVM, compilers and so on).
> The involved commercial entities don't seem to be interested enough in
> desktop usage of illumos derived distributions to fund the development
> of or work on desktop things like
>   - drivers for graphics cards
>   - wifi
>   - desktop environments
>
> To a lesser degree this is also true for X11. These are the areas OI has
> most interest to enhance the situation and being able to pay for work
> here would be nice.
> I think you should also think about what to do with possible funds, that
> is, find/define projects to be worked on and probably also find
> potential developers for them.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
> >
> > Greetings
> > - Till
> >
> > On 26.05.21 18:32, Gerard Arthus wrote:
> >> We can roll illumos into the foundation; we can keep the books
> >> ourselves,
> >> just have to pay a cpa to sign off on it if that is desired. I would
> >> do the
> >> tax preparation myself unless a large amount of money was involved. I
> >> would
> >> only do this if the finances were completely transparent and
> >> everything was
> >> posted on the Internet. The main point here should be to use donations
> >> strictly for development and not sucking administrative cost which is
> >> quite
> >> common in the nonprofit world.
> >>
> >> Gerry
> >> Gerard Arthus
> >> 409 Lowell Avenue East
> >> Mishawaka, Indiana
> >> United States
> >> 46545
> >> Cell - 574-302-7731
> >> Home - 574-520-1337 <574-217-8726>
> >>
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> >> Engineering.
> >>
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> >> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 5:21 PM Marc Lobelle <marc.lobelle at uclouvain.be
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Yes, I too think it is a good idea and worth a try.
> >>>
> >>> Marc Lobelle
> >>>
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 26/05/2021 20:40, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>> We can get this going with at least 3-4 individuals; if there is
> >>> interest I
> >>>>> can start putting something together.
> >>>> This is definitely a great idea.
> >>>> A.S.
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