Foundation:FoundationFutureState/SPI

Status

• 2017/06/17: Robin emailed SPI
  • Subject: Re: [Informal Discussion] Gentoo associated project
  • Summary: first attempt to discuss joining SPI; SPI was too busy at the time; discussion about using how SPI was already using Ledger for financials and needed some help.

• 2018/12/23: Email from SPI treasurer (Martin Michlmayr)
  • Subject: Re: Accounting Firms supportive of ledger-cli?
  • Discussion about ledger, not really about joining SPI

• Robin Emailed 2020/08/27
  • Subject: [Informal Discussion] Gentoo associated project (take 2)

• Reached out on IRC 2020/09/16

• Initial email response 2020/09/16 from SPI, asking some questions
  • confirmation that Gentoo is a "Free and open source project that is deemed to be genuine, substantial and significant"
  • confirmation that there are multiple developers
  • confirmation that Gentoo uses open source license

• 2020/09/16 Robin provides detailed answers to the above questions; asks return questions
  • clarification request on the 5% fee of donations & income:
    • Does it apply to initial balances for new organizations joining SPI?
    • Structure of fee regarding payment processing fees & taxes and/or unrelated business income
      • e.g. is the 5% on the gross income, or the net income?

• 2020/09/17 Mgorny asks:
  • are multiple project liaisons permitted
  • How does SPI verify the authenticity of the requests coming from project liaison? (i.e. prevent someone from trying to impersonate the liaison)

• No further responses from SPI to Robin's questions or mgorny's questions

• 2021/07/12 Alicef email:
  • SPI moved from ledger to beancount