From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: Pls Support Conservancy: https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/ Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 07:08:28 +0100 Message-ID: <569B2FDC.8090207@alum.mit.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: git discussion list To: Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , Shawn Pearce X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 17 07:15:38 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aKgck-0002qn-9Q for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2016 07:15:38 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751482AbcAQGPd (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:15:33 -0500 Received: from alum-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu ([18.7.68.13]:51799 "EHLO alum-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750987AbcAQGPc (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:15:32 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 421 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:15:32 EST X-AuditID: 1207440d-f79136d00000402c-a0-569b2fdf4aff Received: from outgoing-alum.mit.edu (OUTGOING-ALUM.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.33]) by alum-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id 6B.DC.16428.FDF2B965; Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:08:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.69.130] (p5DDB0313.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.219.3.19]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as mhagger@ALUM.MIT.EDU) by outgoing-alum.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id u0H68SVZ025361 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:08:29 -0500 X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/38.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFtrEKsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixO6iqHtff3aYwZqNrBZdV7qZLBp6rzBb /GjpYbaYf2giqwOLx7PePYweFy8pe/w5v4fV4/MmuQCWKG6bpMSSsuDM9Dx9uwTujO0TfrIW 7Oep2Ht6OlMD4ySuLkZODgkBE4kdD9azQNhiEhfurWfrYuTiEBK4zCjxpO8DO4Rzlkniz8a1 TCBVwgJeErO7FzKD2CICeRK7J/5nB7GFBKwk1m6YDFbDJqArsainmQliqpxEb/cksA3MQPEH HY/B4rwC2hLTFx4Ai7MIqErsuXwazBYVCJF4//U5K0SNoMTJmU+A4hwcnALWEjsv10CM0ZPY cf0XK4QtL9G8dTbzBEbBWUg6ZiEpm4WkbAEj8ypGucSc0lzd3MTMnOLUZN3i5MS8vNQiXSO9 3MwSvdSU0k2MkDDn3cH4f53MIUYBDkYlHt4X82aFCbEmlhVX5h5ilORgUhLllfsEFOJLyk+p zEgszogvKs1JLT7EKMHBrCTCa80zO0yINyWxsiq1KB8mJc3BoiTOq7ZE3U9IID2xJDU7NbUg tQgmK8PBoSTBW6wH1ChYlJqeWpGWmVOCkGbi4AQZziUlUpyal5JalFhakhEPiuD4YmAMg6R4 gPbOBGnnLS5IzAWKQrSeYtTlODb3xlomIZa8/LxUKXFeD5AiAZCijNI8uBWwpPaKURzoY2Fe NmCKE+IBJkS4Sa+AljABLeENmA6ypCQRISXVwCj3dRFfcfH2Jy9kl57UUJCUn5OZn8gQVNpW M6Wye+ciPz/xSf9/LPLXL+nON36uuYzzueU5QcsJ/nf77xyfof43lPPgnX/WDTtu Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 12/22/2015 05:02 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > [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. > 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 -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu