2014-07-03 15:05 GMT+02:00 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > A note: Fedora cannot take direct financial contributions from others > for legal reasons. The creation of a non-profit Fedora Foundation was > looked into and decided against long ago. That won't change as far as > I'm aware of, so we should probably avoid bringing that up again. > > We do have sponsors in the form of hosting, machines, and event > sponsors I believe. > > josh Debian has an interesting model: Debian itself has no legal entity, but there is on the side a non-profit foundation to collect funding and handle the trademark SPI (http://www.spi-inc.org/) They also receive funding from various local entities (ie: Debian Switzerland & France) We don't need the NPO to own Fedora or handle the trademark, just collectings funds. We could also bring a formal partnership program to encourage other companies to publicize and further their work in Fedora. H. _______________________________________________ board-discuss mailing list board-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/board-discuss
