I agree in principle with giving 10% of Inkscape earmarked revenue to the SFC but before I vote yes I want some clarification of exactly what is meant by "Inkscape earmarked revenue". For example, I recently went to the GSOC mentor's summit for which travel expenses are being reimbursed by Google via the SFC. Is this reimbursement subject to the 10%?
Tav
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 19:17 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
A majority vote of the current board members is required for this matter.
Proposed:
10% of Inkscape's earmarked revenue is to be paid to the Software Freedom Conservancy. This will help them continue to provide services to open source projects.
[ ] a. Yes, allow the 10% payment to the Conservancy [ ] b. No, keep arrangements as is
Background:
The proposal is from Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director of the Conservancy, who wrote to us on this list a couple weeks ago:
(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.Bryce
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