From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.3 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,LOTS_OF_MONEY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E995B20A78 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2017 02:45:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751070AbdBBCpG (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2017 21:45:06 -0500 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:48143 "EHLO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750861AbdBBCpG (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2017 21:45:06 -0500 Received: (qmail 1732 invoked by uid 109); 2 Feb 2017 02:45:05 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 02:45:05 +0000 Received: (qmail 16393 invoked by uid 111); 2 Feb 2017 02:45:07 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.42.43.3) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Wed, 01 Feb 2017 21:45:07 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 02 Feb 2017 03:45:02 +0100 Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 03:45:02 +0100 From: Jeff King To: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Git / Software Freedom Conservancy status report Message-ID: <20170202024501.57hrw4657tsqerqq@sigill.intra.peff.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Since it's been about a year since the last one, I'd like to give a brief overview of the activities of Git as a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy. I plan to have a discussion session at the Git Merge Contributor Summit tomorrow; I'll try to relay any interesting points from that session to the list. # Background Git is a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy. We joined in 2010 so that Conservancy could help us manage our money and other assets, and represent us for legal stuff like trademarks. Conservancy doesn't hold any copyright on Git code, and our status as a member project is totally disconnected from the development of the code. A "Project Leadership Committee" (PLC) represents Git in Conservancy. The PLC consists of me, Shawn Pearce, and Junio Hamano. # Financials In short, we have about $21K (USD) in our account. Here's the breakdown of money in versus out (these are sums of double-entry transactions, so negative is good here): $-27,468.01 Income:Git $6,207.50 Expenses:Git -------------------- $-21,260.51 You can see we don't actually spend that much. Here's the same report just since 2016-01-01: $-4,468.64 Income:Git $2,102.32 Expenses:Git -------------------- $-2,366.32 Those reports come from running "ledger" on the file given to us by Conservancy. I can run other reports if there are things people want to know. I _think_ there are some outstanding transactions that actually bump that closer to $3K (e.g., money invoiced for GSoC that gets collected by Conservancy and then eventually dumped into a bank account). Here's the same report over the last three years: $-12,990.84 Income:Git $2,772.78 Expenses:Git -------------------- $-10,218.06 So we seem to average about $3K/year ahead of our expenses. ## Where does the income come from? We get money from the mentor stipends for GSoC. We get about $1K/year in donations (you can donate to Conservancy and earmark for Git, or there's a "donate" button on git-scm.com, though it's not particularly prominent). Links from git-scm.com to buy the paper copy of the Pro Git book are Amazon affiliate links. If people buy stuff (either the book, or other things after clicking around the site), we get some money. This accounts for ~$800 this year. Packt Publishing has several technical books related to Git, and they send some of the royalties to the project. That was ~$400 this year. ## Where do expenses go? Most of the money goes to travel. Note that this accounts for some of the income, too. if we send a mentor to the GSoC mentor summit, for example, we invoice Google for the money, which shows up as income. And then it leaves us to reimburse the mentor, which is an expense. So it's net-zero for the project, but inflates the numbers. We also spent ~$900 on legal filing fees for the trademark (not this year, but that's part of the total income/expenses history I showed earlier). # Activity Summary for 2016 This is a summary of interesting things related to the project that happened in the past year. ## Mentoring We had one GSoC student, Pranit Bauva (who passed). The actual coding project has little to do with our Conservancy status, but the Git project did get the stipend money, and handled the financial logistics for Christian Couder to go to the mentor summit (the money ultimately comes from Google for that). We were a potential Outreachy project last Spring for the first time, but we didn't end up picking an intern. As a reminder, the Outreachy program is somewhat similar to GSoC, but with a focus on getting under-represented groups involved in programming (but not necessarily college students). The projects themselves have to cover the stipend for the intern (or get funding elsewhere to do so). Last year GitHub offered to fund one intern for us, but we didn't end up selecting anyone. ## Travel Money We paid for travel for one developer to Git Merge last year, and we are covering one this year, too. Each year I ask if financial circumstances are preventing anyone from coming, and if the project can help. Each year I have gotten only one response. The Git PLC discusses each case, and we decide whether and how much money to provide; Conservancy handles the logistics. That tries to balance privacy for individuals who need financial support with some accountability for the project. ## git-scm.com DNS We now own the git-scm.com domain, which is held for us in a Conservancy account (this is mostly for convenience; they hold a ton of domains, and can just auto-renew out of our money). We also have owned git-scm.org for a while. There has never really been an "official" Git website, but git-scm.com has been the de facto one for a while. I think us actually controlling the domain makes it more so. The actual governance of the site content is up in the air. I'll send a separate email about that[1]. ## Trademark We hold a trademark on "Git" and the diamond-shaped logo, and have to deal with various questions for that. I'll send out a separate, much more detailed mail about that[2]. That's about it. I'd be happy to try to answer any questions about this year's activities, how Git's membership in Conservancy works, etc. -Peff [1] http://public-inbox.org/git/20170202023349.7fopb3a6pc6dkcmd@sigill.intra.peff.net/ [2] http://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw@sigill.intra.peff.net/