Re: Debian joning OASIS?
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:59, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 11-Mar-02, 17:53 (CST), Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:
> > Er, Wichert is the SPI Secretary; I am the SPI Treasurer.
>
> Oops, sorry. It was you I meant, though.
>
> > It is Debian's right and responsibility to approve this donation. My
> > role as SPI Treasurer is twofold:
> > 1) try to ensure that it's legal for SPI to make the expenditure;
>
> I should have been more explicit in my question:
>
> If SPI recieves >= $1000 donations with a specific request that the
> donations be spent only to purchase an OASIS membership for Debian, can
> the purchase then be made w/o getting formal majority approval for the
> Debian members?
There is nothing stopping the interested people from paying the $1000 direct
to OASIS on bahalf of Debian.
If money is donated to Debian with a condition attached (such as giving the
money to OASIS) then there would be no other options than refusing the
donation or accepting the terms, and it seems that we don't have anyone who
violently objects to OASIS so accepting the terms would be the option.
The only issue then is what happens if <$1000 is donated.
But I think we are about to get a consensus on matching funds anyway.
> My personal opinion is that if several of our SGML/XML knowledgeable
> developers express an interest, and are willing to kick in, say, %50 of
> the first year fee, then we could/should pick up the rest. After that,
> I'd want to see some sort of indication that it was being put to use.
I think that everyone agrees that the second year's fees would not be paid
automatically.
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