That doesn't sound too complicated. I should be able to set up a PayPal
account for the Foundation and enable setting categories or at least
putting notes on donations.
The illumos Foundation does have a bank account, so far I'm the only person
with access to it but I expect to add more eg board
The exact percentage of any earmarked funds to be withheld for a general
fund should be discussed by the illumos Foundation board, probably after
the board is expanded sometime in the near-ish future. There's no agreed
guideline on this at present.
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Jonathan
:08 PM, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 September 2012 16:47, Deirdre Straughan
deirdre.straug...@joyent.com wrote:
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I know that it's really none of my business, since I have yet to
actually give anything except support/bugs to the community ...
I think
In fact, the establishment of the illumos Foundation has been a fair amount
of work and is still in progress. It is incorporated in California as a
501(c)(6), has an initial board (Garrett, Jason Hoffman of Joyent, and Even
Powell of Nexenta - we expect to expand this soon), and by-laws are in
I've received email from someone who wants to make a donation (of
unspecified magnitude) to OpenIndiana. They contacted me as manager of the
parent illumos community, but I think it right to turn the question over to
the OI community.
Is there any mechanism in place for taking donations? If (as I
