Re: git gsoc money

[Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>]

On jeudi 03 décembre 2009, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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.

Yeah, that would be a great. Thanks for doing that!

> 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].

I benefited from the GSoC fund last year and much appreciated having my 
travel expenses to go to the GitTogether reimbursed.

But I think it is ok too for developers to have an amazon wish list, so 
donors can choose. And by the way Junio has one:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/1513KNZE30W63

so everyone is welcome to buy him something!

> 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.

Another way we could perhaps use the funds (especially if we have to do that 
before the end of the year) could be to defray membership costs if some 
developers want to join (or are already member of) some related 
organisation like the Linux Foundation:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/join/individual/

or the FSF:

http://www.fsf.org/associate/

Best regards,
Christian.