Hi, Ekaitz Zarraga <eka...@elenq.tech> skribis:
> On 2024-10-26 22:22, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> We have enough money, about 50k€ currently at the FSF plus a couple >> thousand € at Guix Foundation⁰. > > So we rely on the FSF for the funding, mostly. To be clear, the FSF is not sponsoring Guix or funding its development; it is acting as a fiscal sponsor (read: a bank) here. [...] >>> - Is the Guix Foundation the way to do it? >> It is one way to do it, yes. > > Should we invest on making it **The Way**? My personal take: yes, we should do that. > 0. Is the donate page in guix.gnu.org up to date? Maybe we should make > sure it is, and maybe include the Guix Foundation? > > 1. Adopt an RFC process. I think it's valuable. > > 2. Decide if we want to invest on the Guix Foundation: > - What is the status of it? Is it a fully functional organization? > - Can we use the Guix Foundation for, for example, Tax exempt > donations in the EU? And the US? Maybe some famous streamer could > use their platform to make fundraisers for the Guix > Foundation. (see what the Zig Software Foundation does) > - Could we use the Guix Foundation to make a minimal Business (I > hate that word) model to make a Guix-based product to get funds to > improve Guix itself? Say, make a Guix hosting service? Currently > most of us are throwing money to corporations for our small > servers and would be happy to redirect that to something we love, > while also having a great Guix based workflow. > - Or maybe some of us could make that model and donate all or part > of the profits to the Guix Foundation? (I think owning the > hardware helps a lot) > > 3. Once we have money we can use, choose some people to maintain the > infrastructure and pay them. > - Can we really afford our machines? (are we paying for all of them? > what are we going to do with the ones that are in a basement > somewhere?) > - Is Guix sustainable? > > 4. Maybe decide if we want to have paid > maintainers/security-maintainers or committers (or teams!). > > 5. Relieve weight from people that have too much on their shoulders. I > won't name names, but some of you are in the border to the burnout. > - How could the rest of us mitigate that? Maybe it's time to speak > and ask for help. > > 6. Propose more committers. Encourage committers to review patches, > and also non-committers! (Steve, you are doing a valuable thing) > > 7. Add documentation about Guix's infrastructure to the Contributing > section of the manual, so anyone can pay attention to that part of > Guix too. I'll try to do that myself, if someone else is committed to > commit it ;) > > Those points we could act on in the short/mid-term, or at least give > us some direction. > > What do you think, am I missing something? > Maybe some of the calls to action you don't like? Are they practical enough? I have reservations regarding #3: we have enough money for machines but not for people, and we’re not set up to pay people apart from bounties/stipends maybe. But really: all good directions to invest in and points to address, I agree! Ludo’.
