[discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Till Wegmüller]

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

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Re: [discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Peter Tribble]

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On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM Till Wegmüller <toasterson@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

An excellent plan. Count me in.


> 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


-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/

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Re: [discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Olaf Bohlen]

Dear Till,

> 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.
[…]
> 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
I’m in, please keep me updated.

Best regards,

Olaf

-- 
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 ___/_|___\   Leven
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Re: [discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[rest]

Hi. 

Happy to hear it and I'm in as well.

Kind regards
Ovi

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------
Am 11.02.25 18:07 um Till Wegmüller schrieb <toasterson@gmail.com>:

> 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

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[discuss] Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Till Wegmüller]

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

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[discuss] Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Lou Picciano via illumos-discuss]

Till,

I would be happy to be a part of this 'Founding Group' of an OpenIndiana Association. And Thank you for your initiative on this. A small handful of you are doing a _lot_ of the work...

Though I've been relatively quiet recently, some here will remember I'm one of the 'original' OpenIndiana guys, going back to 134a - and even further into Solaris, then OpenSolaris - well; it has been quite a history, right?

I also participated in, tried to help to the extent of my expertise(!) with initial work on making the packaging system accessible/workable. Did a bit of packaging, too.

I've been hesitant to jump into helping with documentation, where I think I could have some impact; hard to know where to chip away at the iceberg.

Hope I'd have quite a bit to contribute.

Lou Picciano


> On 2025-02-11 12:07 PM EST Till Wegmüller <toasterson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> 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

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Re: [discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Jim Klimov]

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My time and commitment manager (a.k.a. wife) has approved, so count me in
and welcome on board :)

Jim

On Tue, Feb 11, 2025, 18:07 Till Wegmüller <toasterson@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

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Re: [discuss] Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Randy]

On 2/15/25 6:43 AM, Till Wegmüller wrote:
> - General gfx acceleration work (lots is being done by contributors 
> now but some Code Bounties here and there do motivate more people)
> - Power Management

Generally speaking, I have interest *and* knowledge in these areas, but 
am mostly winding down my career towards retirement.

So my question is how might a member with limited interest and 
contribution fit into this association (though, a supplemental question 
is also how much interest the community in general has for these two 
items, as over the last decade I've felt more reluctance than desire).

   Cheers!

     ---- Randy

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Re: [discuss] Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Till Wegmueller]

Hi Randy

In Germany and Switzerland there is a general requirement for one Yearly 
meeting where the books and the Leadership gets discharged in a vote and 
where members can bring in Topics to have a say in the Associations work.

Since this Association will be a funding body it is not about technical 
decisions but more about structure and related topics. Technical topics 
are best discussed on the lists here. And other online groups.

While we assume that not all members would show up for every meeting 
having enough members does make sure we will always have enough members 
in every meeting.

With the amount of people already signed up I think it is ok to only 
participate in part of the activities we will have. One Online meeting 
(event) per Year and the Membership fee of 30 Euros per year is 
mandatory the rest is optional.

I am also thinking on how to make the meeting less tedious so that 
people can mingle and use it as an event to talk and meetup. I remember 
some software where we could do this Online.

Hope this clraifies things
Greeting
Till

On 17.02.25 20:56, Randy wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/15/25 6:43 AM, Till Wegmüller wrote:
>> - General gfx acceleration work (lots is being done by contributors 
>> now but some Code Bounties here and there do motivate more people)
>> - Power Management
> 
> Generally speaking, I have interest *and* knowledge in these areas, but 
> am mostly winding down my career towards retirement.
> 
> So my question is how might a member with limited interest and 
> contribution fit into this association (though, a supplemental question 
> is also how much interest the community in general has for these two 
> items, as over the last decade I've felt more reluctance than desire).
> 
>    Cheers!
> 
>      ---- Randy

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Re: [discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Jake Strieter]

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I'm interested. Is the formal signup process to follow?
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Re: [discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Ovidiu-Dan Bogat]

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Hi. 

I'd be in as well, located in Austria. 

Kind regards, 
Ovi
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Re: [discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[dc]

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So nice, I'm in !
*Daniel Cure*






On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM <rest@ovidiu.at> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Happy to hear it and I'm in as well.
>
> Kind regards
> Ovi
>
> -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------
> Am 11.02.25 18:07 um Till Wegmüller schrieb <toasterson@gmail.com>:
>
> > 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

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[discuss] Re: Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Till Wegmueller]

Two People to go.

Who will get the 25th?

-Till

On 11.02.25 18:07, Till Wegmüller wrote:
> 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

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[discuss] Re: Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Till Wegmueller]

And with that we are 25!

Signups are still open for those reading this thread via digest or very 
delayed. But we will definetly move forward with the Formation. I will 
writeup a next step info over the next two three days once I can sit 
down again and start the Process.

Until then happy Greetings
Till

On 19.02.25 19:05, Till Wegmueller wrote:
> Two People to go.
> 
> Who will get the 25th?
> 
> -Till
> 
> On 11.02.25 18:07, Till Wegmüller wrote:
>> 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

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[discuss] Re: Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[dave]

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Wrote you on irc too, but count me in :-)

Cheers,
Dave
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[discuss] Re: Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[hazzino via illumos-discuss]

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I'm in but I'm just a normal user not a developer
Thank you
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Re: [discuss] Re: Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi,

Please send a directly mail to me with Your first and Lastname and 
actual email address so I can sign you up for the initial Founding phase.

Thanks
-Till

On 24.02.25 07:17, hazzino via illumos-discuss wrote:
> I'm in but I'm just a normal user not a developer
> Thank you
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Re: [discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

On 11.02.25 18:07, Till Wegmüller wrote:

Hi,

> 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.

Where will it be settled ? Germany ?
Which legal form ?


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Re: [discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Till Wegmueller]

Hi

It's currently either Switzerland or Germany with more things pointing 
to Switzerland as the Choice.

In both cases the basics are roughly the same for a Association. In 
Germany that is known as Eingetragener Verein in Switzerland it will be 
an Association which is translated as Verein. Apart from differing 
requirements the legal form works the same in both cases.

I write more of the Progress in a "internal" list. And I know I need to 
write there aswell :) It's a bit of hell month appointment wise, but 
it's only a day or so of work that I need to shovel myself the time 
around for.

-Till

On 12.03.25 11:36, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 11.02.25 18:07, Till Wegmüller wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Where will it be settled ? Germany ?
> Which legal form ?
> 
> 
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[discuss] Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Gabriele Bulfon via illumos-discuss]

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I'm in. Keep me posted.
 
Gabriele
 
 
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Da: Till Wegmüller <toasterson@gmail.com>
A: Discussion list for OpenIndiana <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org>
Cc: discuss@lists.illumos.org
Data: 11 febbraio 2025 18.07.12 CET
Oggetto: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

Hello AllDuring 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.orgLooking forward to build this with you all-Till_______________________________________________openindiana-discuss mailing listopenindiana-discuss@openindiana.orghttps://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
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Re: [discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[w g beazley via illumos-discuss]

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Is there an option for a pay once lifetime membership?

Thank You,
Will

> On Mar 13, 2025, at 1:41 AM, Gabriele Bulfon via illumos-discuss <discuss@lists.illumos.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm in. Keep me posted.
>  
> Gabriele
>  
>  
> Sonicle S.r.l. : http://www.sonicle.com <https://www.sonicle.com/>
> Music: http://www.gabrielebulfon.com <http://www.gabrielebulfon.com/>
> eXoplanets : https://gabrielebulfon.bandcamp.com/album/exoplanets
>  
> 
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Da: Till Wegmüller <toasterson@gmail.com>
> A: Discussion list for OpenIndiana <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org>
> Cc: discuss@lists.illumos.org
> Data: 11 febbraio 2025 18.07.12 CET
> Oggetto: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members
> 
> 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
> 
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Re: [discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi,

No, this is a support Association.
It can be decided by the members once we got through the Initial 
process, but we should not start with that. I advise against it 
completely though.

-Till

On 27.03.25 20:45, w g beazley via illumos-discuss wrote:
> Is there an option for a pay once lifetime membership?
> 
> Thank You,
> Will
> 
>> On Mar 13, 2025, at 1:41 AM, Gabriele Bulfon via illumos-discuss 
>> <discuss@lists.illumos.org> wrote:
>>
>> I'm in. Keep me posted.
>> Gabriele
>> *Sonicle S.r.l. *: http://www.sonicle.com <https://www.sonicle.com/>
>> *Music: *http://www.gabrielebulfon.com <http://www.gabrielebulfon.com/>
>> *eXoplanets : *https://gabrielebulfon.bandcamp.com/album/exoplanets 
>> <https://gabrielebulfon.bandcamp.com/album/exoplanets>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Da: Till Wegmüller <toasterson@gmail.com>
>> A: Discussion list for OpenIndiana <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org>
>> Cc: discuss@lists.illumos.org
>> Data: 11 febbraio 2025 18.07.12 CET
>> Oggetto: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members
>>
>> 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
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Re: [discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[w g beazley via illumos-discuss]

Till,

Thank you. Either way just tell me where to set up membership.


Cheers,
Will

> On Mar 28, 2025, at 11:06 AM, Till Wegmüller <toasterson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> No, this is a support Association.
> It can be decided by the members once we got through the Initial process, but we should not start with that. I advise against it completely though.
> 
> -Till
> 
> On 27.03.25 20:45, w g beazley via illumos-discuss wrote:
>> Is there an option for a pay once lifetime membership?
>> Thank You,
>> Will
>>> On Mar 13, 2025, at 1:41 AM, Gabriele Bulfon via illumos-discuss <discuss@lists.illumos.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm in. Keep me posted.
>>> Gabriele
>>> *Sonicle S.r.l. *: http://www.sonicle.com <https://www.sonicle.com/>
>>> *Music: *http://www.gabrielebulfon.com <http://www.gabrielebulfon.com/>
>>> *eXoplanets : *https://gabrielebulfon.bandcamp.com/album/exoplanets <https://gabrielebulfon.bandcamp.com/album/exoplanets>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> Da: Till Wegmüller <toasterson@gmail.com>
>>> A: Discussion list for OpenIndiana <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org>
>>> Cc: discuss@lists.illumos.org
>>> Data: 11 febbraio 2025 18.07.12 CET
>>> Oggetto: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members
>>> 
>>> 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
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Re: [discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members

[Till Wegmüller]

Hey Will

Happy to have you.
Send me your Full legal name and email to mailto:toasterson@gmail.com 
then I'll add you to the list and keep you posted.

-Till

On 28.03.25 17:15, w g beazley via illumos-discuss wrote:
> Till,
> 
> Thank you. Either way just tell me where to set up membership.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Will
> 
>> On Mar 28, 2025, at 11:06 AM, Till Wegmüller <toasterson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> No, this is a support Association.
>> It can be decided by the members once we got through the Initial process, but we should not start with that. I advise against it completely though.
>>
>> -Till
>>
>> On 27.03.25 20:45, w g beazley via illumos-discuss wrote:
>>> Is there an option for a pay once lifetime membership?
>>> Thank You,
>>> Will
>>>> On Mar 13, 2025, at 1:41 AM, Gabriele Bulfon via illumos-discuss <discuss@lists.illumos.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm in. Keep me posted.
>>>> Gabriele
>>>> *Sonicle S.r.l. *: http://www.sonicle.com <https://www.sonicle.com/>
>>>> *Music: *http://www.gabrielebulfon.com <http://www.gabrielebulfon.com/>
>>>> *eXoplanets : *https://gabrielebulfon.bandcamp.com/album/exoplanets <https://gabrielebulfon.bandcamp.com/album/exoplanets>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Da: Till Wegmüller <toasterson@gmail.com>
>>>> A: Discussion list for OpenIndiana <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org>
>>>> Cc: discuss@lists.illumos.org
>>>> Data: 11 febbraio 2025 18.07.12 CET
>>>> Oggetto: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formation of an OpenIndiana Association: Call for initial members
>>>>
>>>> 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
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