@Tav and Ted, I got clarification on "earmarked". Basically as I
understand the answer it means, "That portion of the money coming
to the Conservancy's bank account that is for the Inkscape project."
Full response is below.
Once you've reviewed, let me know if you have additional questions or
are ready to finalize your votes.
(Also, anyone who wishes to alter a previously cast vote on this item
based on the new info is of course welcomed to do so, but please do so
quickly, as I will be communicating our decision to the Conservancy once
we have reached a majority.)
Bryce
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 20:17 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
We are still collecting votes on the question of the 10% payment to
the Conservacy. Several board members are leaning to Yes, but
haven't cast a vote due to a question of what "earmarked funds" would
cover. If we can get guidance from SFC on this, I think we can get
the voting wrapped up on this question as well.
In the preamble, the FSA mention:
Conservancy's Board of Directors has approved the establishment of a
fund to receive donations of cash and other property earmarked for
support of the Project and to make disbursements in furtherance of the
Project's mission (the ``Project Fund'').
This Project Fund, which is the revenue Conservancy has "earmarked" for
the Inkscape project, are all donations, receivables, revenue, income,
etc., for which the donor has indicated as a donation for "Inkscape", or
Conservancy has any reason to believe the intent for the funds was
specifically for Inkscape (e.g., when Packt sends us royalty book
payments for Inkscape books).
Conservancy tracks carefully this income as Inkscape's revenue, and does
not spend it without consultation of the Inkscape leadership committee.
The easiest analogy to the for-profit world that we've found to explain
this is to think of Inkscape as a wholly owned subsidiary of
Conservancy. Inkscape has revenue and funds, which is really part of
Conservancy's revenue, but Conservancy has an agreement with Inkscape
that indicates the funds are held earmarked for Conservancy.
Conservancy then handles the administrative and other services Inkscape
has come to expect from Conservancy.
Historically, Conservancy had sufficient funding from other sources such
that all funds earmarked for Inkscape were spent only on
Inkscape-specific things. The proposed change here would take 10% of
every donation or other type of income for Inkscape to keep Conservancy
running.
I do encourage you, BTW, to take a look at Conservancy's annual filings
and audit, which includes some information about this. FY 2011's is
still under preparation (literally while I'm writing this :), but FY
2010's and the earlier ones are on our website at:
http://sfconservancy.org/about/filings/
Please let me know if you have additional questions, and Tony or I will
respond. Again, sorry that we didn't get a response out to the message
during Thanksgiving week.
--
Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 03:13:04PM -0800, MenTaLguY wrote:
> I think yes. We rely on them enough that it seems appropriate.
>
> -mental
>
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:53:32 +0100, Johan Engelen <j.b.c.engelen@...51...> wrote:
> > I am leaning Yes too. I had not yet replied because I was waiting for
> > the "earmarked" too. Does this include all donations? Hmm perhaps I
> > should try to read-up on all Inkscape's income sources...
> >
> > -Johan
> >
> > On 26-11-2012 23:43, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> >> Josh Andler Yes
> >> Tavmjong Bah ? # leaning Yes
> >> Ted Gould ? # leaning Yes
> >> Bryce Harrington Yes
> >> Johan Engelen ?
> >> Tim Cole ?
> >> Jon Cruz ?
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 07:17:59PM -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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