Corporate sponsorship ( was Re: Going passive )

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi Jóhann,

On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 00:44 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 11/09/2010 11:13 PM, Matt Domsch wrote:
> >> Would it be granted equal amount of seats to appoint members or more that is
> >> if it funded more and would it have the rights to appoint the veto member (
> >> FPL )?
> > If we were to have a sponsor of equivalent stature to Red Hat,
> > undoubtedly as terms of such sponsorship (or really membership if to
> > be considered equal), the layout of the Board and privileges would get
> > re-evaluated.  Given no one is stepping forward to offer several $M
> > US, I don't want to travel too far down this hypothetical scenario.
> 
> Hum not following you're reasoning here I would think the layout of the 
> board and privileges would need to exist before hand but not get 
> re-evaluated afterwards for those wanting to become members equivalent 
> stature to Red Hat and willing to aid in future grow of the project.

As competing for local resources in planning my wedding and watching
wedding planning TV shows has taught me, people who have a lot of money
and want something to happen are pretty capable of figuring out how to
make it happen, even if there is no established and/or publicized way of
doing so.

~m