From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gnu.wildebeest.org (gnu.wildebeest.org [45.83.234.184]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E2B73858D20 for ; Mon, 15 May 2023 18:06:56 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org 9E2B73858D20 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=klomp.org Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=klomp.org Received: by gnu.wildebeest.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9A774313ACAF; Mon, 15 May 2023 20:06:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 20:06:55 +0200 From: Mark Wielaard To: annobin@sourceware.org Subject: Sourceware joins Software Freedom Conservancy Message-ID: <20230515180655.GB11203@gnu.wildebeest.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3027.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,KAM_SHORT,PDS_BRAND_SUBJ_NAKED_TO,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/may/15/sourceware-joins-sfc/ After various discussions and lots of positive feedback [1] [2] [3] [4] Software Freedom Conservancy and Sourceware proudly announce that Sourceware today joins SFC as a member project! As the fiscal host of Sourceware, Software Freedom Conservancy will provide a home for fundraising, legal protection and governance that will benefit all projects under Sourceware's care. We share one mission: developing, distributing and advocactingfor Software Freedom. Together we will offer a worry-free, friendly home for core toolchain and developer tool projects. We are happy to discuss this in #overseers on irc.libera.chat now 18:00-19:00 UTC. And we will also start regular Overseers Open Office Hours every second Friday of the month on irc at the same time. Of course you are welcome to drop into the #overseers channel at any time and we can also be reached through email and bugzilla: https://sourceware.org/mission.html#organization To support the Software Freedom Conservancy, please become a Sustainer https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer You can also donate directly to Sourceware: https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/#Sourceware as a directed donation (mention Sourceware in the comment or memo line) See https://sfconservancy.org/donate/ for other ways to donate. [1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/overseers/2022q3/018802.html [2] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/overseers/2022q3/018804.html [3] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/overseers/2022q3/018834.html [4] https://www.fsf.org/events/sourceware-infrastructure-a-presentation-and-community-q-a https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/may/15/sourceware-joins-sfc/ Sourceware, one of the longest standing Free Software hosting platforms, joins SFC Important Free Software infrastructure project finds non-profit home May 15, 2023 As a home for Free Software projects since 1998, Sourceware is a keystone in Free Software infrastructure. For almost 25 years Sourceware has been the long-time home of various core toolchain project communities. Projects like Cygwin, a UNIX API for Win32 systems, the GNU Toolchain, including GCC, the GNU Compiler Colection, two C libraries, glibc and newlib, binary tools, binutils and elfutils, debuggers and profilers, GDB, systemtap and valgrind. Sourceware also hosts standard groups like gnu-gabi and the DWARF Debugging Standard. See the full list project hosted and services provided on the [1]Sourceware projects page. Becoming an SFC member project will improve future operations carried out by dedicated volunteers to and furthering the mission of Free Software hosting. This will accelerate the Sourceware [2]technical roadmap to improve and modernize the infrastructure. As the fiscal host of Sourceware, Software Freedom Conservancy will provide a home for fundraising, legal assistance and governance that will benefit all projects under Sourceware's care. We share one mission: developing, distributing and advocating for Software Freedom. And to offer a worry-free, friendly home for Free Software communities. We see a bright future working together. With Conservancy as fiscal sponsor, Sourceware will also be able to fundraise and have the community of volunteers work together with paid contractors and enter into contracts for managed infrastructure where appropriate. SFC looks to Sourceware's years of experience in providing outstanding infrastructure as an inspiration for improving the Free Software ecosystem both for other SFC projects, and also in furthering SFC's mission around campaigns to promote Software Freedom Infrastructure. For decades, Sourceware has shown that hosting Free Software projects with Free Software infrastructure is not only possible, but helps create and fosters the growth of relationships and networks within the Free Software communities. SFC is thrilled to join the powerful history of demonstrable experience to grow hosting options that are 100% free software, in the future to bring in new ideas, communities, and projects! Projects hosted by Sourceware are part of the core toolchain for GNU/Linux distros, embedded systems, the cloud and, through Cygwin, Windows. Back in 1984 Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust already described how making the source code for these tools available is essential to create what today we call secure software supply chains. Sourceware provides robust infrastructure and services for projects to adopt secure collaboration and release policies. We forsee future cooperation with other Conservancy member projects, such as the [3]Reproducible Builds project which provides an independently-verifiable path to supply chain security. Additionally, Sourceware will leverage Conservancy advisory role in how community projects are impacted by and can comply with regulations like NIST, CISA, USA Cyber Security Directives and the EU Cyber Resilience act. Each SFC member project is led by a Project Leadership Committee (PLC). Each individual member of the PLC participates in their own capacity, but nevertheless the majority of the PLC never includes a majority of people affiliated with the same organization. Sourceware's PLC includes various volunteers, past and present, from the Sourceware community. The founding PLC is: Frank Ch. Eigler, Christopher Faylor, Ian Kelling, Ian Lance Taylor, Tom Tromey, Jon Turney, and Mark J. Wielaard. Recent discussions have inspired the Sourceware volunteers to think carefully about the future and succession of the leadership for this important hosting project. By joining SFC, Sourceware gains access to strategic advice and governance expertise to recruit new volunteers and raise funds to support work on Sourceware infrastructure. As part of this governance improvement, Sourceware also announces today regular irc office hours for guest project admins to advise and discuss any needs and issues in hosting. The [4]Sourceware mission page lists various other ways to contact and participate in the community. Sourceware will continue its long standing mission of providing free software infrastructure to the projects it supports, and this will not change moving forward. The affiliation with SFC will be transparent to the projects hosted on Sourceware. Project admins will keep being in charge of how they utilize the services Sourceware provides. To support the Software Freedom Conservancy, please become a [5]Sustainer. You can also [6]donate directly to Sourceware (mention Sourceware in the comment or memo line). See [7]the donation page for other ways to donate. Sourceware may be volunteer managed, but wouldn't be possible without the hardware, network resources and services provided by Red Hat and OSUOSL. Additionally [8]build/CI testing machines are provided by various individuals and the Brno University, Marist College, IBM, the Works on Arm initiative and the Gentoo Foundation. References 1. https://sourceware.org/projects.html 2. https://inbox.sourceware.org/overseers/YrLdfDWzq1T4k5xg@wildebeest.org/ 3. https://reproducible-builds.org/ 4. https://sourceware.org/mission.html 5. https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/ 6. https://sfconservancy.org/donate/#wire 7. https://sfconservancy.org/donate/ 8. https://builder.sourceware.org/