On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Flavio Leitner <f...@sysclose.org> wrote: > 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.
The Linux Foundation is aware of the current budget (which is minimal with the exception of the conference) and has said they are willing to cover it as part of their general funds. Obviously if there was a significant expansion of that - for example, building out a testing lab - then there would probably need to be further discussion of where that money comes from and it might involve sponsors. I don't really see that affecting the success or failure of the charter though. More specifically, I don't think anyone would be willing to change the structure of the project in order to collect money. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
