DuckDuck Debian? [LWN.net]

DuckDuck Debian?

Posted Apr 12, 2012 14:47 UTC (Thu) by endecotp (guest, #36428)
Parent article: DuckDuck Debian?

I always find it hard to form an opinion about things like this without knowing more about the financial position of the potential recipient of the funding. Why can't I find annual accounts for Debian that tell me what their income was, where it came from, and how they spent it? Is money something that is holding Debian back in any significant way?

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DuckDuck Debian?

Posted Apr 12, 2012 17:18 UTC (Thu) by n8willis (subscriber, #43041) [Link] (2 responses)

It's actually public info; Brian Proffitt did a round-up of the filings just a few days ago: http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/260688/nonprofit-open-source-organizations-booming

SPI is on there; the tables are sorted alphabetically.

Nate

DuckDuck Debian?

Posted Apr 12, 2012 20:21 UTC (Thu) by andrel (guest, #5166) [Link] (1 responses)

SPI serves many projects, not just Debian. And Debian's activity outside the US often isn't handled through SPI.

DuckDuck Debian?

Posted Apr 17, 2012 0:26 UTC (Tue) by n8willis (subscriber, #43041) [Link]

I'm aware of that; the point is that SPI is the entity that is required to file. And you can see the scale of the operation from the filings -- in particular the final income / expense balance.

Nate

DuckDuck Debian?

Posted Apr 13, 2012 9:22 UTC (Fri) by valhalla (guest, #56634) [Link]

There is a recent post by Stefano Zacchiroli that talks about what the problem in collecting such informations is, and what they are doing to solve it:

http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2012/01/debian_donatio...