[oe] OpenEmbedded entity and some clarification

[Esben Haabendal]

Great!

Will it be possible for OE friendly companies to contribute/sponsor the OE
"entity" (what is the correct name for this legal entity?)

Best regards,
Esben Haabendal
DoreDevelopment ApS

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Holger Freyther <zecke at selfish.org> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> we have talked about creating a legal entity at the first and second OEDEM
> and
> the result of the second OEDEM was that we will create a German registered
> association (e.V., non-profit, not for business). Some of us (mostly me)
> have
> shamelessly used the the KDE e.V. statutes [1] and replaced KDE with
> OpenEmbedded and did some other minor work (e.g. replacing Desktop with
> other
> things).
>
> At FOSDEM we sat together and hold the required founding assembly,
> according
> to my notes Florian, Mickeyl, Robert and me are part of the first board.
> We
> four still have to do the necessary things to register the association.
>
>
> Goal of the OpenEmbedded:
>        The primary goal is to support the development of OpenEmbedded.
> This can
>        include providing/paying infrastructure, sponsor developer
> gatherings, fly
>        people to conferences etc.. Or might even be paying a doc writer
> to... help
>        us.
>
>        It will not be a steering comittee, it will not engage in business
> activities
>        (well hopefully we have a list of OE friendly companies, where we
> can point
>        to if we get some kind of requests)
>
> What is left to do:
>        We will have to register at the court, we plan to do this in April.
> Then we
>        can invite new members (the ones not present at the founding
> assembly)....
>
>
> I hope this clarifies things a bit? If not please speak up.
>
> z.
>
>
> [1] http://ev.kde.org/corporate/statutes.php
>
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