`<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Hi Marion</div><div><br>On 12 May 2017, at 23:47, Marion Hakanson <<a href="mailto:hakansom@ohsu.edu">hakansom@ohsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>I wonder how many such $1k/yr customers (supporters) would be needed</span><br><span>to hire Dan to continue his work on behalf of the OmniOS/illumos</span><br><span>community. Would 100 be enough? 200?</span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>there is a list to see how</div><div>much we could raise</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IyAI950a-JkPgRRLSezZm9-Rt8HkfO_nIkubd_m8d_0">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IyAI950a-JkPgRRLSezZm9-Rt8HkfO_nIkubd_m8d_0</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Regards,</span><br><span></span><br><span>Marion</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>From: Krzysztof Grzempa <<a href="mailto:grzempek@gmail.com">grzempek@gmail.com</a>></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 20:18:22 +0200</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To: <<a href="mailto:omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com">omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com</a>></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] To the OmniOS Community</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thank you Dan, for the best Illumos distro ever!</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I hope that the transfer to the community driven model will come true, and</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I hope you still will be the part of it.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Now it is up to us, the 'community' to decide if we want to keep this great</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>project alive or let if go.... I'm ready to participate somehow financial</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>and with my skills...</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>2017-05-12 19:35 GMT+02:00 Jim Klimov <<a href="mailto:jimklimov@cos.ru">jimklimov@cos.ru</a>>:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On May 12, 2017 6:07:01 PM GMT+03:00, Dan McDonald <<a href="mailto:danmcd@omniti.com">danmcd@omniti.com</a>></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>wrote:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Dear OmniOS Community,</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>For the past 3+ years, it has been my pleasure and honor to be "OmniOS</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Engineering" at OmniTI. I hope I made OmniOS a nice platform to use for</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>solving problems, whether they be Home-Data-Center, service-hosting</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>box, network filer, or other uses.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>As you saw, OmniTI is turning over OmniOS completely to the community.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>The decision-making was sensible for OmniTI, and I understand it</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>completely. With r151022, OmniOS should be at a nice long-term state</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>(022 was always intended to be LTS).</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I will be around OmniTI for another week (though on Friday the 19th my</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>availability will be spotty). During this next week, I encourage</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>people to start upgrading or installing r151022 on their environments.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I already have updated it on my own HDC, and it seems to be performing</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>as it has previously.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thank you again, OmniOS community, for making these past three years as</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>rewarding as I'd hoped they'd be when I joined OmniTI. And as for</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>OmniTI, if you need web or database consulting, please keep them in</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>mind. Still a fan, even though I'm no longer with them.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Dan McDonald -- OmniOS Engineering</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>OmniOS-discuss mailing list</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com">OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss">http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Oh, bummer... I hope you'd be around for the community effort too every</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>now and then. ;) Thanks for keeping that ship afloat!</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Jim</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>--</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Redmi Android</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>OmniOS-discuss mailing list</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com">OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss">http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>OmniOS-discuss mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com">OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss">http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss</a></span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>`