[ogb-discuss] Meeting Schedule [was: Next steps...]

[Alan Coopersmith]

Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>> This topic came up a few times during the last administration as well;
>> the new OGB should spend some cycles figuring out how to manage some
>> budget to enable this kind of thing.  I don't mind if Sun contributes
>> to it, but the OGB needs to control the allocation and disbursement.
> 
> We've talked about this before but it's a non-starter for various
> reasons: it requires opensolaris to be a separate legal entity and
> it requires us to have books and have those books checked.  It
> can't be done any easier than that.

Other open source groups have joined under the umbrella of Software in
the Public Interest to load-share those burdens across multiple projects.
( http://www.spi-inc.org/ )  I'm not sure we want to go there, though it
would be amusing to have OpenSolaris under the legal entity originally
founded to support Debian.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering