What is success for Fedora?

[Haïkel]

2014-07-03 15:05 GMT+02:00 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>:
>
> 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.