From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: git gsoc money Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:22:20 -0500 Message-ID: <20091203052220.GA22582@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 03 06:22:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NG495-0004u5-3d for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:22:27 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751300AbZLCFWP (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:22:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751238AbZLCFWP (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:22:15 -0500 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:48648 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751156AbZLCFWP (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:22:15 -0500 Received: (qmail 12000 invoked by uid 107); 3 Dec 2009 05:26:48 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:26:48 -0500 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:22:20 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: As a result of our participation in the Summer of Code project last summer and this summer, Google gave the git community some money. Most of that money went to defraying travel costs to the SoC mentor summit and the GitTogether, both last year and this year. However, we still have about $500 USD remaining. Because of the way Google hands out the money (they want to deal with one entity per project, and git has no legal entity), all of the remaining money is being held personally by me. For accounting and tax reasons, I don't want to hold it later than Dec 31st. So I am soliciting suggestions from the community on what to do with the money. Some possibilities are: 1. Become an affiliated project of an organization like The Software Freedom Conservancy or Software in the Public Interest. These are non-profit groups to whom we (or anyone else who wants to, for that matter) can donate money earmarked for a particular project. They handle the accounting and hold the money, and then we get it out when we need it for something. Of course, then we still have the question of what that "something" is. So far, all money has been used for travel aid. Suggestions welcome. The upsides of this path are that it would handle the issue for future years, and it would make it easy for people to donate money to git if they wanted to. The downside is that the process may take a while, so it may not actually happen in the next month. Some relevant links for further reading: http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/overview/ http://www.spi-inc.org/treasurer/associated-project-howto.html 2. Donate the money to some non-profit (by the way, all discussion of taxes and non-profit here is with respect to the United States, as the money is being held in the US). Possible recipients include a software freedom organization like those listed above, or something not software-specific like the EFF. It might be nice to contribute to projects that help us build git, like curl, libxdiff, or asciidoc, but AFAIK we can't do so in a tax-exempt way. gcc/mingw is another candidate; we can probably donate to the Free Software Foundation for that. Basically I don't want to hold on to this money, I want it to go somewhere useful, and I don't want to make a unilateral decision. Please let me know what people think would be useful. -Peff