I've been discussing with Tom Marble the feasibility of putting Clojars under the umbrella of the Software Freedom Conservancy, since it has an OSS codebase (which is a requirement for the SFC, and something that is lacking from the CCO proposal, since moving Clojure itself under the SFC isn't an option). If Clojars is accepted to the SFC, it would allow us to take larger donations and corporate sponsorships. I expect we would have more money than we need for Clojars itself (we are approaching that now with the BountySource campaign), and I intend to use the extra money to fund development of other OSS tools in the Clojure community.
We would also be willing to take over handing the GSoC funds (again, assuming we get accepted into the SFC). If a community organization comes into existence in the future, we would be willing to hand GSoC fund management over, and potentially direct our extra funds that way as well. Basically, I see Clojars-as-a-community-organization as a stepping stone to a broader community organization, if anyone ever takes that step. I'm working on the SFC application now, and just have a few more questions to answer. Once that is done, we'll be on the list for consideration by the SFC Evaluation Committee, and should be evaluated in the next couple of months. Devin: I have a few questions for the application that I'm hoping you can help with, since they relate to the redesign work you were involved in last year. I'll send them off-list. On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Devin Walters <dev...@gmail.com> wrote: > This initiative seems overdue by a couple years. I would like to offer some > non-trivial portion of my time. Is there anywhere people could donate to > ensure this becomes a valuable and positive community reality? > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 4:38 PM Alex Miller <a...@puredanger.com> wrote: >> >> I don't think we have any official position on it, but I can respond to >> various items that have been mentioned above in the thread: >> >> 1) Google Summer of Code - we (Cognitect) are again acting as a receiver >> of stipends and distributor of travel funds this year but would happily let >> another org do that instead. Cognitect currently provides free tickets for >> GSOC students to attend once conference in the year following their >> participation, and we would be happy to continue doing so. >> >> 2) clojure.org / documentation - we are very far along in the process of >> open sourcing the content on http://clojure.org. All of the content for the >> new version of the site is available at >> http://github.com/clojure/clojure-site and open for contributions via pull >> request. There are a bunch of issues there with things to do if you want to >> help. I am spending most of my time right now finalizing the >> staging/deployment/ci infrastructure for that and it is inching ever closer >> to being ready to go live as the real site. >> >> 3) CLAs, github, jira, confluence, hudson - Cognitect does not have plans >> to give up control of these sites. Community members have rights to access >> these sites already. I have spent a fair amount of time moving towards >> hosted cloud versions of some of these in the last couple months - the work >> involved is ... painful. Once clojure.org is live, I plan to put these back >> on priority list. >> >> 4) Conferences - Cognitect has no plans to give up the organization of the >> three Clojure conferences we run (Clojure/Conj, Clojure/West, and >> EuroClojure). Other people or organizations are of course welcome and >> encouraged to create their own events - we already have great ones like >> ClojureEx, clojureD, ClojuTre, Clojure Remote, etc. >> >> 5) Clojars - seems to have had a pretty successful time in seeking >> sponsors for their ongoing support, which is great! This is a community >> resource and I'm glad to see the community supporting it. >> >> 6) ClojureBridge - now has the ability to receive funds (go donate!) and >> manage things via the Bridge Foundry. >> >> Given all that, it's not clear to me what role a Clojure community >> organization would play. I think figuring out the goal is obviously the >> important part. >> >> >> >> On Thursday, December 10, 2015 at 2:36:06 PM UTC-6, Daniel Compton wrote: >>> >>> Hi Alex >>> >>> Following up on this, is there anything else you can share? >>> >>> Thanks, Daniel. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. 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