Agenda
- Structure for financials - payments/donations
- Reviewing Opencollective
- Reviewing creating charitable status for Nix
- Enabling
- Banking
- NixCon sponsorship and tickets
- NixCon payments
- other payments
- NixCon Update
- Admin
Minutes
- Non-profit and charitable status: OpenCollective
- There is an open platform where you can see the transactions
- This is one of the non-profits that is made for the open source community
- You don’t get tax deductible status for donations
- Could be an issue since it incentivizes further donations
- They can help with employment, organizing conferences
- You can have multiple non profits on the platform
- There are some areas we would need to look into here
- How complex is the onboarding/offboarding?
- What will we be doing through the OpenCollective?
- Fee is 10%
- Decision - Research the needs and what we plan to use the Open Collective for. Look into the cost/benefit of the 10% fee and alternatives.
- Utilize a tool to track items we are working on and assignment
- We have some GitHub repos:
- GitHub - NixOS/foundation: This is the home of the NixOS Foundation ← we’ll use this one by default
- At times we will also have tasks that are not present in the public github if privacy or financial implications force the situation.
- We have some GitHub repos:
- NixCon
- Talks : We have over 20 talks and one week left to submit. Market out and support folks in proposing talks!
- Sponsors : List is growing! Over 15k committed
- Board fireside chat will be one of the talks at NixCon with the entire NixOS board
- Created a spreadsheet of all expenses and submit to NixOS Board
- Finalize board budget for NixCon
- NixOS foundation will be able to manage sponsorships for NixCon
- We are evaluating a few different options for fiscal hosting due to tax regulations of tickets sales in France
- In Person Board meeting
- Before or after the NixCon
- Admin stuff
- Changed foundation address (due to updates)
- Armijn is working on the annual reports with Rob
Action Items
- NixCon
- Push and market talk proposals
- Finalize fiscal hosting for ticket sales
- Define and release a NixOS Board 3 months plan