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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@mastodon.technology)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2019 16:04:12 UTC Software Freedom Conservancy

We've got a blog post that explains our views & reaction to #GItHub's new #Sponsors program & related initiatives. We're concerned that it (so far) ignores key governance issues for #FOSS projects related to funding. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/may/23/github-sponsors/ #Sustainability #FOSSSustainability
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1. Chasing Quick Fixes To Sustainability
  
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  Various companies and trade associations have now launched their own tweak on answers to the question of “FOSS sustainability”. We commented in March on Linux Foundation's Community Bridge, and Bradley's talk at SCALE 2019 focused on this issue (video). Assuring that developers are funded to continue to maintain and improve FOSS is the focus of many organizations in our community, including charities like ourselves, the Free Software Foundation, the GNOME Foundation, Software in the Public Interest, and others.
- Stephen Michael Kellat repeated this.
- see shy jo (joeyh@octodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2019 17:11:50 UTC see shy jo
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  @conservancy I wish you had mentioned github's TOS, which has the potential to combine with them controlling free software's funding in horrible ways
  
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  Stephen Michael Kellat repeated this.

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