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"Conservancy assists FLOSS project leaders by handling all matters other than software development and documentation, so the developers can focus on what they d

• notjackma 12y ago
  I would donate but only if 100% of the money goes toward the projects and not social causes such as teaching x/y/z to code or an outreach program for demographic a/b/c (looking at Gnome Foundation and Mozilla here).
  • jgrowl 12y ago
    That's your prerogative, but doesn't more exposure mean more potential future contributors?
    • angersock 12y ago
      You say this like it's unconditionally a good thing. Consider a lot of the pain with Gnome, systemd, pulseaudio, etc. More cooks isn't always a good thing.
      • andreasvc 12y ago
        I don't think that pain is caused by "more cooks", but rather by the dominance of Red Hat.
  • jcn 12y ago
    Not sure about their financials, but they're pretty transparent overall. Some of their internal policies (linked from that support page) are in their git repo https://gitorious.org/conservancy/policies https://gitorious.org/conservancy/policies and their list of services seems pretty clear: http://sfconservancy.org/members/services/ http://sfconservancy.org/members/services/
    • mlinksva 12y ago
      Their tax filings are at http://sfconservancy.org/about/filings/ http://sfconservancy.org/about/filings/ and a couple explanatory posts http://sfconservancy.org/blog/?tag=filings http://sfconservancy.org/blog/?tag=filings One of the organization's staff (but not as an official activity, afaik) has a repository of filings of many free/open type organizations, https://gitorious.org/floss-foundations/npo-public-filings/ https://gitorious.org/floss-foundations/npo-public-filings/ which is useful for comparison purposes, and welcomes contributions of info (most of it is available elsewhere on the web, but can be hard to find). Perhaps ought to be a website.
  • fijal 12y ago
    If you want to donate to a project (e.g. twisted, wine, whatever), 90% goes to the project and 10% goes to the SFC. The 10% is mostly covering operational costs as the SFC is incredibly helpful. We (PyPy) are working with them for quite a bit and we spend the 90% either earmarked for the specific proposals or on sprint accomodation/travel/etc. if you don't wish to specify the proposal.
  • vdaniuk 12y ago
    I was already considering donating a meaningful amount, but now I will donate double to compensate for the effect your absurd statement might had on HN readers.
  • daveloyall 12y ago
    Every time I see comments like this I can't help but imagine that we've all become the victims of some elaborate cointelpro scheme.
• paroneayea 12y ago
  I've donated... Conservancy does good for a lot of great projects. Heck, if you're using / developing FOSS, you're pretty much 100% guaranteed to be helped by the work Conservancy is doing. I wrote here about why I'm supporting, and why you should too: http://dustycloud.org/blog/donate-to-conservancy/