As a fan of both Racket and Software Freedom Conservancy, happy to hear this! :)
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt writes: > We're very excited about joining SFC. The main goal we hope to get > from this is the ability to manage our finances for Racket in a > tax-exempt manner in the US, as well as to make it easy to contribute > financially to the health of the Racket project. How Racket is > developed and maintained won't change in other ways because of joining > SFC. We aren't transferring any copyrights on Racket's source code. > > We're happy to answer any questions about this process, either > privately or on the list, and of course you're welcome to email SFC > with questions as well, as Deb mentions. > > Sam, Robby, Matthew, Matthias, Jay > > > On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 3:51 PM, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> I’m the Director of Community Operations at the Software Freedom >> Conservancy. >> >> I am excited to write that Conservancy’s Project Evaluation Committee has >> approved Racket for membership in Conservancy. The Racket Project Leadership >> Committee has been working with Conservancy to put a document in place >> called a “fiscal sponsorship agreement” (FSA). Matthew Flatt, Jay McCarthy, >> Robby Findler, Matthias Felleisen and Sam Tobin-Hochstadt are signing this >> document on behalf of the Racket community. >> >> You can find a template of the agreement available on Conservancy’s website >> at: https://sfconservancy.org/members/apply/ConservancyFSATemplate.pdf 9 >> (there are .odf and .tex files available too). >> >> If you have questions or concerns, we suggest you discuss them on this list >> or with Conservancy privately if you prefer. >> >> Conservancy’s “Project Intake group” can be reached by the alias >> [email protected] and is comprised of the following people: >> Bradley M. Kuhn, Karen Sandler, Tony Sebro, Jeremy Allison, Tom Callaway, >> Martin Michlmayr. All of whom are members of Conservancy’s Project >> Evaluation Committee and will be happy to answer questions. >> >> Conservancy strongly suggests that a public discussion of the FSA occur on >> the general discussion list for contributors of your project, which is why >> I’ve posted this information here on the Racket Developers list. >> >> If we don’t receive any credible objections to Racket joining Conservancy by >> Monday, May 14th 2018, we plan to execute the FSA on that date. >> >> We look forward to having Racket join Conservancy! >> >> Deb Nicholson >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Racket Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/fcf9bba7-a84f-47de-ad39-399ad6d2d7ef%40googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/87po26i7ja.fsf%40dustycloud.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
