I just wanted to add that the Conservancy does really important, thankless work on a shoestring budget. I've known Bradley and Karen for years and I've seen how dedicated they are to keeping free software free.
I'm a Conservancy supporter, and I hope you'll join up too! On Tue, 2015-12-22 at 08:02 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > [Jeff King, Shawn Pearce and myself represent the Git project to the > Conservancy, and here is a request for help from us.] > > We apologize that we're interrupting the usual content on this > mailing list with a fundraising message, but the non-profit home of > the Git project, Software Freedom Conservancy, is in urgent need of > your immediate support: https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/ > > Git receives a myriad of important services (see > https://sfconservancy.org/members/services/ ) from Conservancy. We > have relied on Conservancy since 2009 to provide them, and we ask > that you support them. While Git gladly contributes 10% of our > project's gross revenue to Conservancy's general fund, (while > Conservancy maintains and administers the other 90% in collaboration > with us to advance the Git project), that 10% of contributions from > all Conservancy's member projects doesn't add up to enough to even > employ one full time person, let alone the already overworked staff > of three that Conservancy has. > > Conservancy's fundraiser, found at > https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/ > , is centered around asking individuals who care about the work that > Conservancy does to donate $120/year, or just $10/month, to support > the > organization. Conservancy seeks about 2,500 Supporters to continue > its > current work, and 750 Supporters to continue a "bare minimum" of > services to its projects. > > Here are some of the things that Conservancy does for Git that are in > the "bare minimum" category: > > * Handle our Google Summer of Code payments and travel, including > handling all financial transactions with Google to receive and > then > disperse the money. > > * Coordinating travel reimbursements for Git contributors to attend > conferences. > > * Buying and shipping hardware to Git volunteer contributors who > need > it. > > * Keeping the non-profit status for us so that we don't have to form > our own org and file our own paperwork. > > Here are some of the services Git has received in the wider category: > > * Dealing with questions from the community about the DCO and legal > issues surrounding contributions to the Git project. > > * Discussing the issue of copyright governance and contributions > with > large corporations who want their employees to contribute to Git > but need legal assurances or have questions relating to Git's > license or contribution policies. > > * Helping us write the Git trademark policy: > https://git-scm.com/trademark , registering the trademark, and > enforcing the trademark when we need it. This assures Git users > can > know that when they see something called "Git", it relates to the > Git > project in some way. > > * And, in fact, we do very occasionally find companies violating the > GPL on Git, and Conservancy has helped us out with that. > > > As you can see, Git really relies on the important work of > Conservancy, > and thus the Git project leadership encourages you to choose > Conservancy > as one of your charitable gifts this holiday season. (Conservancy is > a > 501(c)(3) charity incorporated in New York, and donations are > typically > deductible on U.S. taxes.) > > Please visit: https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/ > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
