Sweet! ________________________________ From: Till Wegm?ller <toaster...@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2025 8:07 AM To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members
I am aiming for Jitsi as that has Voting support built in and we used it for a Meeting with another Association before. It Can be self hosted and offers Free Public Options too. It's a common tool for associations here in Europe. Also the Framasoft people offer all those tools aswell. All of which are OpenSource themselves https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/ For ARM development Checkout https://github.com/richlowe/arm64-gate/ it's pretty active with 4 Contributors. We can ofcourse also check with them and the ARM mailing list if Funding would be an option. -Till On 15.02.25 14:48, Mike Carroll wrote: > We could use something like Zoom for online meetings and then using something > like Google Forms for the voting. For me, AMDGPUs are important and I also > like to see a gradual supporting of ARM (when/where it makes sense of > course!). > ________________________________ > From: Till Wegm?ller <toaster...@gmail.com> > Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2025 7:43 AM > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org>; illumos-discuss > <disc...@lists.illumos.org>; omnios-disc...@lists.illumos.org > <omnios-disc...@lists.illumos.org> > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: > Call for initial members > > Hello All > > With the Responses filing in we are currently at 12 Members. As I get a > couple of Questions a lot I think it is time to address these questions. > > - Meeting location: We will have any Voting Meeting online or a way for > Mail in Balloting. One meeting once a Years is mandatory as a > Association is a microscopic Democratic Organisation. It thus requires > that the members sign off on the Associations Financial Report and the > members need to ratify that the Admin team has done it's Duty > (Entalstung des Vorstandes). We do not want to add more topics to this > meeting as we already have Online Communication channels such as this list. > > - Funding Scope: During the Talks in the OpenIndiana Maintainer meeting > and now again in direct mails it came up that the Scope of projects we > are talking about are beneficial to the illumos project as a whole. For > reference the projects we are talking about are: > - Porting AMDGPU > - General gfx acceleration work (lots is being done by contributors now > but some Code Bounties here and there do motivate more people) > - Wifi > - Power Management > - Other Desktops > - CPU Compute (CUDA and AMD Pendant) > - Desktop Utilities > > - Reach: I have heard from some people that they would like to have > OpenIndiana on their desktops while working with OmniOS on the Server. > Are so few people in illumos-discuss now that I could not reach them? > Are some of the pure omnios users interested in getting more illumos on > different Hardware? > > - Funding targets: To gather smaller funds up to a couple hundred Euros > a month individual Patreons etc. where sufficient. But to fun projects > in the Scale above we would be talking of Funding Goals of about 50'000 > Euros to 150'000 Euros for certain projects (Mainly AMDGPU) this > requires us to go to Companies and Foundations to Fundraise. And for > that we need a legal Entity so the Foundations can be sure that people > don't run away with the Money. Members can contribute to those Project > goals ofcourse but it is not part of the Members fee. > > Please also share this Mail with people you think would be interested > but maybe not on the List. > > If you are in principal interested in membership but think you can't > join now. What is blocking you? > > -Till > >> >> 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@openindiana.org >> >> Looking forward to build this with you all >> -Till >> >> _______________________________________________ >> openindiana-discuss mailing list >> openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
