From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Couder Subject: Re: git gsoc money Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 11:39:01 +0100 Message-ID: <200912051139.01924.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> References: <20091203052220.GA22582@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20091203153935.GB23281@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Dec 05 11:36:46 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 1NGs0K-00083t-6G for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:36:44 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752229AbZLEKgc convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Dec 2009 05:36:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753549AbZLEKgc (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Dec 2009 05:36:32 -0500 Received: from smtp3-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.3]:56313 "EHLO smtp3-g21.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753113AbZLEKgb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Dec 2009 05:36:31 -0500 Received: from smtp3-g21.free.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp3-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E64E818153; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 11:36:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from bureau.boubyland (gre92-7-82-243-130-161.fbx.proxad.net [82.243.130.161]) by smtp3-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B34818151; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 11:36:27 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 In-Reply-To: <20091203153935.GB23281@spearce.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On jeudi 03 d=E9cembre 2009, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Jeff King wrote: > > However, we still have about $500 USD remaining. > > > > Some possibilities are: > > > > 1. Become an affiliated project of an organization like The Softw= are > > 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= =20 travel expenses to go to the GitTogether reimbursed. But I think it is ok too for developers to have an amazon wish list, so= =20 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=20 before the end of the year) could be to defray membership costs if some= =20 developers want to join (or are already member of) some related=20 organisation like the Linux Foundation: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/join/individual/ or the FSF: http://www.fsf.org/associate/ Best regards, Christian.