On 12/22/2015 05:02 PM, 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/ I agree that SFC is a great and worthwhile organization and I also encourage people who care about free and open-source software to become supporters. > 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. Do we have an idea whether the Git project's 10% contribution is covering its own costs to the SFC? 10% sounds rather low to me, given the legal and administrative services that they provide. Let's consider contributing more (e.g., 20%) of the Git project gross revenue to SFC. Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html