Become an Official Software Freedom Conservancy Supporter

Post by daveloyall » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 6:15 PM UTC

notjackma wrote: post #3

jcn wrote: post #2

"Conservancy assists FLOSS project leaders by handling all matters other than software development and documentation, so the developers can focus on what they do best: improving the software for the public good." All of their projects: http://sfconservancy.org/members/current/

I would donate but only if 100% of the money goes toward the projects and not social causes such as teaching x/y/z to code or an outreach program for demographic a/b/c (looking at Gnome Foundation and Mozilla here).

Post by nine_k » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 6:25 PM UTC

daveloyall wrote: post #10

dyadic wrote: post #8

It really pains me to be critical of what is a good thing, but I do wish that they would hire a designer for their website. There seems to be a rejection of design in OSS (less so these days, I admit). I really like the idea of judging software solely on how it stands alone, but people don't do that, and to many this will just come across as amateur.

Yes. Also, their available payment options seem a little behind the times.

Post by mlinksva » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 6:46 PM UTC

jcn wrote: post #5

notjackma wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would donate but only if 100% of the money goes toward the projects and not social causes such as teaching x/y/z to code or an outreach program for demographic a/b/c (looking at Gnome Foundation and Mozilla here).

Not sure about their financials, but they're pretty transparent overall. Some of their internal policies (linked from that support page) are in their git repo https://gitorious.org/conservancy/policies and their list of services seems pretty clear: http://sfconservancy.org/members/services/

Post by paroneayea » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 10:08 PM UTC

nine_k wrote: post #12

dyadic wrote: post #8

It really pains me to be critical of what is a good thing, but I do wish that they would hire a designer for their website. There seems to be a rejection of design in OSS (less so these days, I admit). I really like the idea of judging software solely on how it stands alone, but people don't do that, and to many this will just come across as amateur.

I'm afraid they cannot hire a designer, but maybe they could accept a few pull requests? (Unfortunately, I failed to find their site on githib, but probably they have a repo somewhere.)

Post by bkuhn » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 11:03 PM UTC

dyadic wrote: post #8

It really pains me to be critical of what is a good thing, but I do wish that they would hire a designer for their website. There seems to be a rejection of design in OSS (less so these days, I admit). I really like the idea of judging software solely on how it stands alone, but people don't do that, and to many this will just come across as amateur.