Over the past couple of months, things have been moving fairly swiftly toward the establishment of a separate entity to govern the openSUSE project. The idea is mainly meant to set up an organization that can receive and disburse funds on behalf of the project, rather than as some kind of move away from its parent company, SUSE. Also, while SUSE seems to be in a healthy position with a strong interest in supporting and working on openSUSE, that could change down the road, so a foundation or similar organization seems like the right way to go. At this point, the first draft of the foundation proposal has been posted; it generally has the support of SUSE management, so it is time to see what thoughts the community has.