[OpenIndiana-discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Lou Picciano]

Till,

I would be happy to be a part of this 'Founding Group' of an OpenIndiana Association. And Thank you for your initiative on this. A small handful of you are doing a _lot_ of the work...

Though I've been relatively quiet recently, some here will remember I'm one of the 'original' OpenIndiana guys, going back to 134a - and even further into Solaris, then OpenSolaris - well; it has been quite a history, right?

I also participated in, tried to help to the extent of my expertise(!) with initial work on making the packaging system accessible/workable. Did a bit of packaging, too.

I've been hesitant to jump into helping with documentation, where I think I could have some impact; hard to know where to chip away at the iceberg.

Hope I'd have quite a bit to contribute.

Lou Picciano


> On 2025-02-11 12:07 PM EST Till Wegmüller <toasterson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hello All
> 
> During the last Months the Wish for an OpenIndiana Association became 
> more concrete and during the last Maintainer meetup the concrete steps 
> where discussed. The first step in the Process is to see if enough 
> people would be willing to become members in order for it to be worth to 
> run the Administrative overhead.
> 
> The Association is mainly intended as a Regulatory body to handle 
> Fundraising for development and secondarily to Fund infrastructure for 
> the Main project. While membership fees are Mandatory in the 
> Juristications we are looking at starting the Association, they are 
> mainly inteded to run the Administrative overhead. The main source of 
> Funding should be via Fundraising.
> 
> We are looking for at least 25 people willing to pay 30 Euros per Year 
> and participate in the "Vereinsversammlung"(Association Meetup) once per 
> Year. We plan to keep the barriers for Entry low so we want this Meeting 
> to be Online. There are tools now that allow for this while satisfying 
> the regulatory requirements. In that meeting you will have the 
> possibility to vote on the Agenda topics and Budget of the Association.
> 
> If you are interested in joing the Association please respond to this Mail.
> 
> If you know somebody or a Hobby group where we could find people 
> interested plese share this mail with them.
> 
> Please feel free to ask any Questions regarding the Association on the 
> OpenIndiana Discussion List openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> 
> Looking forward to build this with you all
> -Till
> 
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