[Reposting]
A majority vote of the current board members is required for the following
proposal relating to retroactive payment to SFC.
Proposal:
1. In light of the services provided by the Software Freedom Consortium to
date, given on voluntary basis, should we provide a retroactive
donation to the SFC?
[ ] Yes, donate to SFC in thanks for their past support.
[ ] No. We should pay only the required 10% fee going forward
from date of signature of the new FSA.
2. Assuming we should donate to the SFC, how much should we donate to
SFC?
[ ] a. 10% of gross income since we have been a member (9 years).
[ ] b. 10% of gross income since initiation of FSA #2 discussions
(2012).
[ ] c. A flat amount of $400 per year that we have been a member
(2009). This amounts to $3600.
[ ] d. A flat amount of $400 per year since FSA #2 (2012).
This amounts to $1200.
[ ] e. Some other amount:
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Background:
Tav writes,
"I agree with Josh and Ted that a donation to the SFC is appropriate for
their past work on our behalf. Can we agree on the amount? I would
propose $400 for each year we have been a member. We have been a member
for 9 years so that would be $3600.
This assumes that the 10% kicks in on the date the new FSA is approved.
"
We were asked by Bradley to provide 10% of our revenue to SFC in 2012:
(b) As I've discussed with a number of you, including Jon, Josh and
Tavmjong, Inkscape has received fiscal sponsorship services
from Conservancy at no charge since 2006. Back when
Conservancy was founded, I was an SFLC employee and SFLC was
subsidizing my time -- effectively donating staff time to
Conservancy. This ceased in early 2008, and I served as a
volunteer for Conservancy on nights/weekends until 2011, when I
became a full-time employee -- which was the only way to keep
it going with the services it promises (the other option would
have been to shut down Conservancy). Since then, to maintain
legal services as part of the service plan once SFLC shrunk
further, we hired Tony as well. We get a lot done with a staff
of two, but obviously we need financial resources to be able to
provide these services.
Conservancy's Board of Directors voted about a year ago that
all member projects should be required to give 10% of their
earmarked revenue to support Conservancy to continue to provide
services. This is a standard way for a fiscal sponsor to
operate, and we were lucky before that we weren't required to
do this, and I'd been waiting to bother Inkscape with this
since you are one of our older members. (We haven't taken a new
member for anything other than 10% in a few years, BTW). I
hope a 10% arrangement as we use with other projects now will
be acceptable to you, and I and Tony are happy to discuss
further this issue.
In December 2012, we voted generally favorable to paying the 10% fee
going forward from 2012. There were questions regarding pass-thru of
Google SOC payments and so on, but generally favored the basic idea:
https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/inkscape-board/?viewmonth=201212
For comparison, Software in the Public Interest (SPI), an organization
analogous to the SFC, provides similar services and takes 5% of net
(after credit card, etc. fees):
http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/associated-project-howto/
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