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[104.178.186.189]) by smtp.gmail.com with UTF8SMTPSA id 956f58d0204a3-6361e8c28dbsm1355860d50.3.2025.09.26.12.11.59 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:11:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:11:58 -0400 From: Taylor Blau To: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Git / Software Freedom Conservancy status report (2025) Message-ID: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit As we get close to Git Merge next week, I wanted to refresh the annual "Git at SFC" status report. This report reflects changes in project's financials and our other activities at SFC. This email will serve as that report for the year 2025. The previous report (from last year, whose format I have been trying to stick to) may be found at: https://lore.kernel.org/git/Zusxcweod1O88h7j@nand.local/ # Background Git is a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy. The Git project joined Conservancy in 2010 so Conservancy could help us manage our money and other assets, and provide legal representation for trademark matters. Conservancy doesn't hold any copyright on any of the project's code. Similarly, being a member project at Conservancy does not grant Conservancy any influence in the project's development. The technical direction that Git takes is up to us. Interested readers can take a look at a more full picture of what Conservancy does for the Git project at: https://sfconservancy.org/projects/services/ A "Project Leadership Committee" (PLC) represents the Git project at Conservancy. The PLC currently consists of Junio C Hamano, Christian Couder, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, and myself. # Financials Since we don't have real time access to our financials, we rely on Conservancy to send us snapshots of our ledger as we request them. This report will share the financials from a snapshot taken on 2025-09-24, which should be fairly close to where we are at the time of the Contributor's Summit and Git Merge next week. The Git project currently has ~$99k USD in our accounts, which is a ~$6k USD increase from where we were around this time last year. Last year we reported a increase of ~$4k USD over the previous year, so this year's financials around in line with what we've seen in the past. Here are the project's ledger numbers as they have changed since when I last shared them as of 2024-09-18. Note that there is some back-dating going on here for ledger entries that did not clear until after the last report. $-8,466.35 Income:Git $-8,210.10 Donations $-256.25 Royalties $3,409.06 Expenses:Git $152.69 General (Bank Fees) $1,846.90 Conferences:Travel $1,250.00 Filing Fees $154.23 Hosting $112.50 Promotional Items $5.24 Tax:Sales $-5.90 Assets:Receivable:Accounts $723.53 Liabilities:Payable:Accounts -------------------- $-4,339.66 (As usual, this is double-entry, so negative numbers are good.) Our balance as of 2024-09-17 was $-93,836.27 (not accounting for backdated entries). Our balance as of 2025-09-24 is $-98,781.05. That is a net change of $-4,944.78, which is better than what is reported above. Despite my best efforts, I can't seem to account for where the extra $605.12 is coming from. Like last time, most of our money comes from donations. This year, ~3.02% of it comes from royalties, which is a little better than the proportion from last year (which was closer to 1.8%). All of the royalties come from Amazon affiliate links. 10% of all incoming money goes to Conservancy's general fund (the above numbers are after that 10% has been deducted). ## Expenses More interesting is where we spent money. Like last year, the biggest chunk of our expenses went towards conference travel. We spent more in that category than last year (where we spent only $675.96). This year we have a new pair of expenditures totalling $1,250 USD for trademark filing fees, handled through Conservancy's legal counsel. $650 of that came from our Section(s) 8 & 9 renewal[1], and the remainder was used to file a Petition for Cancellation against a third-party[2]. We continue to receive requests to use the Mark in various ways. We are no longer paying Heroku to host git-scm.com. The $153.23 we did spend in the "Hosting" category was for one final month of Heroku, and domain renewals for git-scm.com and git-scm.org. Hosting the git-scm.com site on GitHub Pages is free, and saves the project ~$721.32 USD per year. ## Future expenses? The project continues to take in a modest but quite healthy amount of money, and has very few expenses. I continue to wonder if there are other ways that we should be spending our money. If others have thoughts about what the project should do with its money, please feel free to share them. ### Outreachy The Git project participates in Outreachy, which is a program that provides internships in open-source to anyone from any background who faces under-representation, systemic bias, or discrimination in the technical industry where they are living. Outreachy suggests that companies to donate $10k USD per internship they want to sponsor (previously this was $8k USD). The Git project has historically benefited from GitHub and/or GitLab covering these costs for us. We may want to consider budgeting for this in the future ourselves, in case we want to take on more interns than those companies are willing to sponsor. # Trademark matters As above, we filed two petitions related to the "GIT" trademark this year[1,2]. The PLC continues to receive a steady trickle of requests to use the "GIT" mark in various ways that are not compliant with our policy[3]. I cannot recall us approving any requests outside of ones that did not violate our policy to begin with. Over the years there has been some light discussion on if we want to change how we treat our trademark and/or if we want to alter the policy. Nothing substantial has happened in those discussions, though others should feel free to resurrect them if they wish. # Conclusion That's all for this year. I'm happy to answer any questions on the list, and I'll propose a session on it at the Contributor's Summit in a couple of days, in case folks want to discuss this further in person. I'm looking forward to seeing folks next who are able to attend Git Merge either in person or remotely. See you then! Thanks, Taylor [1]: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn85961336&docId=S8920250131165809&linkId=3#docIndex=2&page=1 [2]: https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/ttabvue-92089369-CAN-1.pdf [3]: https://git-scm.com/about/trademark