{"thread":{"id":"45019","subject":"Git / Software Freedom Conservancy status report","startedAt":"2017-02-02T02:45:14Z","lastAt":"2017-02-02T02:45:14Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Jeff King"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"310698","messageId":"20170202024501.57hrw4657tsqerqq@sigill.intra.peff.net","threadId":"45019","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Git / Software Freedom Conservancy status report","fromName":"Jeff King","fromEmail":"peff@peff.net","sentAt":"2017-02-02T02:45:02Z","receivedAt":"2017-02-02T02:45:14Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"peff@peff.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45925?v=4"},"body":"Since it's been about a year since the last one, I'd like to give a\nbrief overview of the activities of Git as a member project of the\nSoftware Freedom Conservancy. I plan to have a discussion session at the\nGit Merge Contributor Summit tomorrow; I'll try to relay any interesting\npoints from that session to the list.\n\n# Background\n\nGit is a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy. We joined\nin 2010 so that Conservancy could help us manage our money and other\nassets, and represent us for legal stuff like trademarks. Conservancy\ndoesn't hold any copyright on Git code, and our status as a member\nproject is totally disconnected from the development of the code.\n\nA \"Project Leadership Committee\" (PLC) represents Git in Conservancy.\nThe PLC consists of me, Shawn Pearce, and Junio Hamano.\n\n# Financials\n\nIn short, we have about $21K (USD) in our account. Here's the breakdown\nof money in versus out (these are sums of double-entry transactions, so\nnegative is good here):\n\n                 $-27,468.01  Income:Git\n                   $6,207.50  Expenses:Git\n        --------------------\n                 $-21,260.51\n\nYou can see we don't actually spend that much. Here's the same report\njust since 2016-01-01:\n\n                  $-4,468.64  Income:Git\n                   $2,102.32  Expenses:Git\n        --------------------\n                  $-2,366.32\n\nThose reports come from running \"ledger\" on the file given to us by\nConservancy. I can run other reports if there are things people want to\nknow.\n\nI _think_ there are some outstanding transactions that actually bump\nthat closer to $3K (e.g., money invoiced for GSoC that gets collected by\nConservancy and then eventually dumped into a bank account).\n\nHere's the same report over the last three years:\n\n                 $-12,990.84  Income:Git\n                   $2,772.78  Expenses:Git\n        --------------------\n                 $-10,218.06\n\nSo we seem to average about $3K/year ahead of our expenses.\n\n## Where does the income come from?\n\nWe get money from the mentor stipends for GSoC. We get about $1K/year in\ndonations (you can donate to Conservancy and earmark for Git, or there's\na \"donate\" button on git-scm.com, though it's not particularly\nprominent).\n\nLinks from git-scm.com to buy the paper copy of the Pro Git book are\nAmazon affiliate links. If people buy stuff (either the book, or other\nthings after clicking around the site), we get some money. This accounts\nfor ~$800 this year.\n\nPackt Publishing has several technical books related to Git, and they\nsend some of the royalties to the project. That was ~$400 this year.\n\n## Where do expenses go?\n\nMost of the money goes to travel. Note that this accounts for some of\nthe income, too. if we send a mentor to the GSoC mentor summit, for\nexample, we invoice Google for the money, which shows up as income.  And\nthen it leaves us to reimburse the mentor, which is an expense.  So it's\nnet-zero for the project, but inflates the numbers.\n\nWe also spent ~$900 on legal filing fees for the trademark (not this\nyear, but that's part of the total income/expenses history I showed\nearlier).\n\n# Activity Summary for 2016\n\nThis is a summary of interesting things related to the project that\nhappened in the past year.\n\n## Mentoring\n\nWe had one GSoC student, Pranit Bauva (who passed). The actual coding\nproject has little to do with our Conservancy status, but the Git\nproject did get the stipend money, and handled the financial logistics\nfor Christian Couder to go to the mentor summit (the money ultimately\ncomes from Google for that).\n\nWe were a potential Outreachy project last Spring for the first time,\nbut we didn't end up picking an intern. As a reminder, the Outreachy\nprogram is somewhat similar to GSoC, but with a focus on getting\nunder-represented groups involved in programming (but not necessarily\ncollege students). The projects themselves have to cover the stipend for\nthe intern (or get funding elsewhere to do so). Last year GitHub offered\nto fund one intern for us, but we didn't end up selecting anyone.\n\n## Travel Money\n\nWe paid for travel for one developer to Git Merge last year, and we are\ncovering one this year, too.\n\nEach year I ask if financial circumstances are preventing anyone from\ncoming, and if the project can help. Each year I have gotten only one\nresponse. The Git PLC discusses each case, and we decide whether and how\nmuch money to provide; Conservancy handles the logistics. That tries to\nbalance privacy for individuals who need financial support with some\naccountability for the project.\n\n## git-scm.com DNS\n\nWe now own the git-scm.com domain, which is held for us in a Conservancy\naccount (this is mostly for convenience; they hold a ton of domains, and\ncan just auto-renew out of our money). We also have owned git-scm.org\nfor a while.\n\nThere has never really been an \"official\" Git website, but git-scm.com\nhas been the de facto one for a while. I think us actually controlling\nthe domain makes it more so. The actual governance of the site content\nis up in the air. I'll send a separate email about that[1].\n\n## Trademark\n\nWe hold a trademark on \"Git\" and the diamond-shaped logo, and have to\ndeal with various questions for that. I'll send out a separate, much\nmore detailed mail about that[2].\n\n\nThat's about it.  I'd be happy to try to answer any questions about this\nyear's activities, how Git's membership in Conservancy works, etc.\n\n-Peff\n\n[1] http://public-inbox.org/git/20170202023349.7fopb3a6pc6dkcmd@sigill.intra.peff.net/\n\n[2] http://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw@sigill.intra.peff.net/\n"}]}