[jcn]

"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/

[paroneayea]

I've donated... Conservancy does good for a lot of great projects. Heck, if you're using / developing FOSS, you're pretty much 100% guaranteed to be helped by the work Conservancy is doing.

I wrote here about why I'm supporting, and why you should too:

  http://dustycloud.org/blog/donate-to-conservancy/

[notjackma]

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).

[fijal]

If you want to donate to a project (e.g. twisted, wine, whatever), 90% goes to the project and 10% goes to the SFC. The 10% is mostly covering operational costs as the SFC is incredibly helpful.

We (PyPy) are working with them for quite a bit and we spend the 90% either earmarked for the specific proposals or on sprint accomodation/travel/etc. if you don't wish to specify the proposal.

[vdaniuk]

I was already considering donating a meaningful amount, but now I will donate double to compensate for the effect your absurd statement might had on HN readers.

[jcn]

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/

[mlinksva]

Their tax filings are at http://sfconservancy.org/about/filings/ and a couple explanatory posts http://sfconservancy.org/blog/?tag=filings

One of the organization's staff (but not as an official activity, afaik) has a repository of filings of many free/open type organizations, https://gitorious.org/floss-foundations/npo-public-filings/ which is useful for comparison purposes, and welcomes contributions of info (most of it is available elsewhere on the web, but can be hard to find). Perhaps ought to be a website.

[jgrowl]

That's your prerogative, but doesn't more exposure mean more potential future contributors?

[angersock]

You say this like it's unconditionally a good thing. Consider a lot of the pain with Gnome, systemd, pulseaudio, etc.

More cooks isn't always a good thing.

[andreasvc]

I don't think that pain is caused by "more cooks", but rather by the dominance of Red Hat.

[daveloyall]

Every time I see comments like this I can't help but imagine that we've all become the victims of some elaborate cointelpro scheme.