Thanks for the questions! On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:51:15 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: > Firstly, we should confirm *with* member projects that they *are* > members. Currently I only have SFC's word that e.g. wine and samba are > member projects; it would be good to find out if wine and samba say the > same. (This guards against SFC being some kind of elaborate scam.)
Note this page from the samba site This is the first donation of its type for Samba since the project joined the Software Freedom Conservancy. Membership of the SFC makes accepting donations like this considerably easier for the team. * http://news.samba.org/announcements/google_annual_donation/ Note also that the SFC have some pretty well known and regarded people on board: * http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/ * http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/ So I would be impressed if this were an elaborate scam :-) > Secondly, while (AIUI) the chief reason for doing this is to hand over > the "caring about legal stuff" work to the SFC, the contract seems to > imply that the Project could actually have some money. Actually, it seems there are two different but related organisations (my mistake). Joining the SFC gives us a way to handle money -- and yes before we do raise said money we will need to have a discussion about how we want to use it, whereas retaining the services of the SF_L_C would bue useful for obtaining legal advice. Note that these seem to be the same people > What could/would we spend this on? For example: paying for hosting > (of darcs.net); paying for bus fares to and coffee/sandwiches at the > next sprint; paying people like David or Eric to work on Darcs full > time. We should indeed deal with this before officially starting to accept donations. I'll wait to see how the discussion on your points goes and forward along some sort of summary to Karen and Bradley -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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