Re: Pls Support Conservancy: https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/

From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Jan 17, 2016, 06:08 UTC
Message-ID: <569B2FDC.8090207@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpoxyeajy.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On 12/22/2015 05:02 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> [Jeff King, Shawn Pearce and myself represent the Git project to the
> Conservancy, and here is a request for help from us.]
> 
> We apologize that we're interrupting the usual content on this
> mailing list with a fundraising message, but the non-profit home of
> the Git project, Software Freedom Conservancy, is in urgent need of
> your immediate support: https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/

I agree that SFC is a great and worthwhile organization and I also encourage people who care about free and open-source software to become supporters.

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> Git receives a myriad of important services (see
> https://sfconservancy.org/members/services/ ) from Conservancy.  We
> have relied on Conservancy since 2009 to provide them, and we ask
> that you support them.  While Git gladly contributes 10% of our
> project's gross revenue to Conservancy's general fund, (while
> Conservancy maintains and administers the other 90% in collaboration
> with us to advance the Git project), that 10% of contributions from
> all Conservancy's member projects doesn't add up to enough to even
> employ one full time person, let alone the already overworked staff
> of three that Conservancy has.

Do we have an idea whether the Git project's 10% contribution is covering its own costs to the SFC? 10% sounds rather low to me, given the legal and administrative services that they provide.

Let's consider contributing more (e.g., 20%) of the Git project gross revenue to SFC.

Michael

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Michael Haggerty
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