Bradley and Karen discuss and critique the new initiative by the Linux Foundation called
CommunityBridge. The podcast includes various analysis that expands
upon their
blog post about Linux Foundation's CommunityBridge.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:36 )

• Conservancy helped Free Software Foundation and GNOME Foundation begin
  fiscal sponsorship work. (07:50 )


• Conservancy has always been very coordinated with Software in the
  Public Interest, which is a FOSS fiscal sponsor that predates Conservancy. (08:26 )


• Conservancy helped NumFocus get started as a fiscal sponsor by providing
  advice. (08:53 )


• The above are all 501(c)(3) charities, but there are also 501(c)(6)
  fiscal sponsors, such as Linux Foundation and Eclipse
  Foundation. (10:00 )


• Bradley mentioned that projects that are forks can end up in different
  fiscal sponsors, such as Hudson
  being in Eclipse Foundation, and Jenkins
  being associated with a Linux Foundation sub-org. (10:30 )


• Bradley mentioned that any project — be it SourceForge, GitHub, or
  Community Bridge — that attempts to convince FOSS developers to use
  proprietary software for their projects is immediately suspect
  (12:00 )


• Open Collective, a
  for-profit company seeking to do fiscal sponsorship (but attempting to
  release their code for it) is likely under the worst
  “competitive” threat from this initiative. (19:50 )

Segment 1 (21:23 )

• Projects that use CommunityBridge are
  required to act in the common business interest of the Linux Foundation
  members. (27:30 )



• Board of Directors seats at the Linux Foundation are for sale,
  according to their by-laws. (28:50 )



• Bradley advises that you should not put anything copylefted into
  CommunityBridge — given Linux Foundation's position on copyleft and
  citing the ArduPilot/DroneCode example. (29:50 )



• CommunityBridge appears to
  only allow governance based on the “benevolent dictator for life
  model” (31:40 ), at least with regard to who controls the money
  (34:30 )



• Bradley mentioned the LWN
  article about Community Bridge. (33:22 )

Segment 2 (36:54 )

• Karen mentioned that CommunityBridge also purports to address
  diversity and security issues for FOSS projects. (37:00 )


• Bradley mentioned the code hosted on k.sfconservancy.org and also the Reimbursenator
  project that PSU students wrote. (42:00 )

Segment 3 (42:44 )

Bradley and Karen discuss (or, possibly don't) discuss what's coming up
on the next episode. Fact of the matter is that this announcement wasn't written yet when we recorded this episode and we weren't sure if 0x65 would be released before or after that announcement was released. We'll be discussing that topic on 0x66.

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