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Hey, everyone. Thanks so much for participating in this thread! I couldn't have asked for a better "retirement party" haha. I followed along all day yesterday while wrapping up the…

"Someone looked straight at it in 2015 and wrote down, in plain English, exactly why xz was dangerous."

Yes, stars are a popularity contest. No open source project has ever become this popular this quickly.

Nice! Missing https://opensourcepledge.com/ tho :)

Some day. :) You can follow along w/ model development in this repo: https://github.com/osendowment/model

Thanks, captured here: https://github.com/osendowment/endowment.dev/issues/34#issue...

Germany is making it work† but seems quite far off to say the least in the US. "Voluntary tax" like this is provocative in its own right, will be interesting to see what gets unloc…

> I've been a part of the HN community longer than Dang, got me beat, too. :) gg

Here are a couple salient portions of our IRS application to put your mind at ease. :^) > In limited circumstances, the Foundation may make grants to organizations that are not des…

Our bylaws are pretty standard: https://endowment.dev/docs/bylaws/ What part of them is "undemocratic" in your view?

Noted in the abstract, thanks. Concrete examples more useful ofc.

> "pay operating costs" is one place non-profits often find fraud. If you find it here please let us know.

Thanks, Alex. Ticketed here: https://github.com/osendowment/foundation/issues/26 Will take some time ofc but good to plant the seed now. :)

Let's back up: The way an endowment works is that donors donate money, which goes into a more-or-less permanent investment fund. The interest from the investment fund is then used …

I love this. Reminds me of MacArthur Foundation's genius grants as well. Linux Foundation has fellows, but it's a small % of budget.

Thanks, noted at https://github.com/osendowment/endowment.dev/issues/34#issue...

Former VC!? KV ... you gonna take that lying down? :P > There are many existing projects like this Also please link, we're not aware of any other endowments exclusively focused on …

The details of how we're thinking about this are in: https://github.com/osendowment/model Happy to have you join us there to iterate on the model. We do prioritize input from paid-…

> flooded with requests to give money to vibe-coded crap And our plan is to willy-nilly give money to everyone who asks for it with no oversight or attention to other factors or hu…

I'll put a plug for the Open Source Pledge here: https://opensourcepledge.com/members/ The companies listed there have all paid at least $2000/eng on staff/year to OSS maintainers.…

Thanks for the idea, tabbott. Made a ticket to track: https://github.com/osendowment/foundation/issues/24

We discussed this prior to launch, and obviously decided to launch as you see it. :) Our reasoning was that a) standardizing on GitHub URLs makes it easier to do automated analysis…

Glad we found some common ground together. ;^)