From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: git gsoc money Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 07:39:35 -0800 Message-ID: <20091203153935.GB23281@spearce.org> References: <20091203052220.GA22582@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 03 16:47:21 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 1NGDtn-00027J-No for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:47:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753789AbZLCPrI (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:47:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753610AbZLCPrI (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:47:08 -0500 Received: from mail-gx0-f226.google.com ([209.85.217.226]:59997 "EHLO mail-gx0-f226.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753431AbZLCPrH (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:47:07 -0500 Received: by gxk26 with SMTP id 26so1327370gxk.1 for ; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:47:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.101.61.12 with SMTP id o12mr1859340ank.1.1259854779108; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:39:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (george.spearce.org [209.20.77.23]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 15sm1088662yxh.40.2009.12.03.07.39.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:39:37 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091203052220.GA22582@coredump.intra.peff.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King wrote: > However, we still have about $500 USD remaining. > > Some possibilities are: > > 1. Become an affiliated project of an organization like The Software > Freedom Conservancy or Software in the Public Interest. Try to join the Software Freedom Conservancy and retain the funds for Git's use? Maybe you can slide in before the Dec 31st deadline. I know a few users of Git have said they can't contribute code, but they would like to throw $25-50 towards a developer to say thank you. This would give them an easier vehicle to do that. I'm not saying we should actively seek donations, we have virtually no expenses and don't need them. But we do sometimes have these GitTogether things, or one of us is going to a Linux Plumbers conference or something to give a talk promoting Git. Having $500 from a handful of donations available to defray Git related travel costs for some of our more active developers is more useful than having a user send something from an Amazon wish list [1][2]. At worst, if we collect a bunch of money and realize "Oh, wait, we have like $8000 USD and we haven't spent any of it in the past 5 years!" we can have the SFC do a big donation to FSF or something and say "thanks for GCC!". If joining the SFC proves too difficult, just donate the $500 to the FSF. That's what we did the first year we were in GSoC. [1] At least, to me. My apartment isn't big enough for the crap I already own, I don't need more crap shipped to it. [2] This remark is due to a user on #git the other week wondering why I don't have an Amazon wish list, as he wanted to send me something to thank me for some feature I wrote eons ago. -- Shawn.