On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 01:30:03PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Flavio Leitner <f...@sysclose.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 12:35:34PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 09:36:47AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >> > LF expects OVS to be a rather small budgetary burden, due to the > >> > project's simple structure. The TSC will coordinate with LF for any > >> > budgetary needs. > > > > Moving to Linux Foundation seems to be a step in a good direction and > > the attached document looks good enough that the community is pretty > > much unaffected by the change. > > > > You mentioned OVS is expected to have small budgetary burden but we > > usually had a conference once in a year that has a significant cost. > > Has this been considered? Any expected changes for this year? > > My understanding is the conference is something that the Linux > Foundation is willing to cover (and organize as well). Regardless, the > plans for this year are unchanged and essentially the same as last > year.
OK. > > You also mentioned that VMware is on board, so I assume that we have > > at least one official sponsor signing in? > > > > I suspect some companies out there would be willing to support OVS, > > but it's not clear what will be required to signing in and/or the > > advantages to do so. > > I think it would ultimately be up to the Linux Foundation to decide > how to handle this. Obviously, anything along these lines would not > conflict with the structure set out by the proposed charter. Sort of, I see that as a requirement for the proposed charter to succeed. A small budget is still a budget and it is not clear if Linux Foundation will provide it or if the project needs other sponsors as well. -- fbl _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
