{"thread":{"id":"26088","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git in the SFC","startedAt":"2010-12-17T00:20:35Z","lastAt":"2010-12-17T13:09:42Z","messageCount":4,"participants":["Jeff King","Erik Faye-Lund","Bradley M. Kuhn"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"158247","messageId":"20101217002034.GA18648@sigill.intra.peff.net","threadId":"26088","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git in the SFC","fromName":"Jeff King","fromEmail":"peff@peff.net","sentAt":"2010-12-17T00:20:35Z","receivedAt":"2010-12-17T00:20:35Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"peff@peff.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45925?v=4"},"body":"I'm pleased to announce that Git is now a member project of the Software\nFreedom Conservancy (SFC). The SFC is a not-for-profit organization that\nprovides financial and administrative assistance to open source\nprojects.\n\nAmong other things, the SFC will now handle any project money that Git\nreceives (e.g., Google Summer of Code money). They will also accept\ntax-deductible donations on behalf of git that will go to git's project\nfund.\n\nFor more information, see Git's SFC page:\n\n http://git-scm.com/sfc\n\nor the SFC's website:\n\n http://sfconservancy.org\n\n-Peff\n"},{"id":"158248","messageId":"20101217003315.GA18898@sigill.intra.peff.net","threadId":"26088","inReplyTo":"20101217002034.GA18648@sigill.intra.peff.net","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git in the SFC","fromName":"Jeff King","fromEmail":"peff@peff.net","sentAt":"2010-12-17T00:33:15Z","receivedAt":"2010-12-17T00:33:15Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"peff@peff.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45925?v=4"},"body":"I kept the announcement to the minimum, but a few follow-on points for\nthe community:\n\nOn Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 07:20:35PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:\n\n> I'm pleased to announce that Git is now a member project of the Software\n> Freedom Conservancy (SFC). The SFC is a not-for-profit organization that\n> provides financial and administrative assistance to open source\n> projects.\n\nIn case you are wondering, this has basically no bearing on the\ndevelopment of git code. We are not assigning copyrights to the SFC\n(though we could if we so chose), and the only real requirement it makes\non the code is that we continue to develop as an open-source project.\nThis just gives us a legal entity for doing any monetary things, or\nhandling contracts or license enforcement should it ever be necessary.\n\nThere is a committee of liaisons to the Conservancy consisting of Junio,\nShawn Pearce, and myself. Doing anything (e.g., spending money we have\nin our account) requires a majority vote of the committee. The committee\ncan be expanded with new members by a vote of the existing committee.\n\nAll of that is in our contract with the SFC. There's no official\nprocedure for doing something like holding a periodic community-wide\nelection. If somebody wants to organize such a thing, I'm sure the\ncommittee would be happy to recognize the results by adding in whoever\nwins the election. For starters, we went with the simplest thing.\n\n> Among other things, the SFC will now handle any project money that Git\n> receives (e.g., Google Summer of Code money). They will also accept\n> tax-deductible donations on behalf of git that will go to git's project\n> fund.\n\nNote that we don't really have a planned use for any money. In the past\nit has mostly gone to helping developers (especially students with no\nmoney) make it to the GitTogether. If you do feel like donating money,\nyou might also consider making a suggestion of what to do with it. :)\n\nYou might also consider donating directly to the SFC. Their mission is\ngood, and git indirectly benefits by having access to their services.\nFor donations earmarked for git, we give the SFC 10%.\n\nIf you have any other questions about what this means for git, or\nsuggestions on how it could or should impact the community, feel free to\nask. I probably won't have good answers, but Bradley Kuhn from the\nConservancy (cc'd) will.\n\n-Peff\n"},{"id":"158249","messageId":"AANLkTikB5eMLh0fZBBOjwAaAwxPnC-3hap28RCXNXa0y@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"26088","inReplyTo":"20101217002034.GA18648@sigill.intra.peff.net","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git in the SFC","fromName":"Erik Faye-Lund","fromEmail":"kusmabite@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-12-17T01:02:09Z","receivedAt":"2010-12-17T01:02:09Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"kusmabite@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/47073?v=4"},"body":"On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Jeff King wrote:\n> I'm pleased to announce that Git is now a member project of the Software\n> Freedom Conservancy (SFC). The SFC is a not-for-profit organization that\n> provides financial and administrative assistance to open source\n> projects.\n>\n> Among other things, the SFC will now handle any project money that Git\n> receives (e.g., Google Summer of Code money). They will also accept\n> tax-deductible donations on behalf of git that will go to git's project\n> fund.\n>\n> For more information, see Git's SFC page:\n>\n>  http://git-scm.com/sfc\n>\n\nI see there's donation-buttons for google checkout and paypal. Would\nit be possible to donate through flattr also?\n"},{"id":"158282","messageId":"874oac8s15.fsf_-_@ebb.org","threadId":"26088","inReplyTo":"AANLkTikB5eMLh0fZBBOjwAaAwxPnC-3hap28RCXNXa0y@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Flattr for Git donations (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git in the SFC)","fromName":"Bradley M. Kuhn","fromEmail":"bkuhn@sfconservancy.org","sentAt":"2010-12-17T13:09:42Z","receivedAt":"2010-12-17T13:09:42Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"bkuhn@sfconservancy.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45438?v=4"},"body":"Erik Faye-Lund wrote at 20:02 (EST) on Thursday:\n\n> I see there's donation-buttons for google checkout and paypal. Would\n> it be possible to donate through flattr also?\n\nYes, I've been looking into flattr in the last two weeks. I'm trying to\nfigure out a way for flattr to allow a \"master account\" so that each of\nConservancy's member projects can have its own and the funds all come to\nConservancy, properly routed for each project.\n\nIf Flattr doesn't support that 'master account' idea, what I'll do is\nmake a separate flattr account for each of Conservancy's member\nprojects. Hopefully, that can be done yet have all the banking\ninformation be the same.\n\nI'll experiment more with this over the weekend and into early next\nweek. I'll report to the Conservancy Git Committee (which is currently\nJeff, Junio, and Shawn) on what I discover and how we can make it work.\n\nAnyway, I'll find a way to do it, one way or the other. Flattr has\nbecome a very popular way to donate to FLOSS projects and Conservancy\ntherefore needs to support it.\n\nBTW, to reiterate what Jeff mentioned in his post, if anyone ever has any\nquestions about Git's membership in Conservancy, just email\n. That alias reaches both me and the Conservancy\nGit Committee simultaneously.\n-- \nBradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy\n"}]}