[oe] OpenEmbedded entity and some clarification

[Holger Freyther]

On Thursday 20 March 2008 19:25:54 Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> Dnia Thursday 20 of March 2008, Holger Freyther napisał:
> > 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:
>
> Goal of the OpenEmbedded e.V.:
> > 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.
>
> Will it cover target devices or part of their costs?

Read the statutes, we can do whatever is in compliance with them. If target 
devices help OE, then yes. We the board and membership will have to set up 
rules and such...
The e.V. and the board have to justify the spending, our justification are the 
statutes.

>
> > 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)
>
> Do we have any written rules for it? How companies can support OE e.V.,
> how they contact to be on a list of 'blessed ones' and how e.V. will sort
> commercial job requests.

For supporting, read the statutes. We have adopted the KDE notion of patron, 
supporter, etc. We have to define policies about what they get in return and 
we have to talk about how much money we want for it...

The plan is: We get registered at court, get everyone in OE to become a 
member, talk about policies. I think the becoming a member part is 
interesting because I do not want to start talking about these things when 
people like you or RP are not members yet....

Mickeyl, Florian, Rober and me have to sort out the legal details with the 
registration and then we can continue talking about these things.



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