Sourceware looking backward, looking forward, Fri 8, 15:00 UTC

[Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>]

Hi all,

Lets discuss the previous year and the goals and budget for the
upcoming year. The Sourceware (financial) year runs from/to May 15
which is when we joined the Software Freedom Conservancy as a member
project. https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/may/15/sourceware-joins-sfc/

Tomorrow is the second Friday of the month, so it is time for the
Sourceware Open Office again. This time one hour earlier so it isn't
yet weekend for those in Europe.

Friday May 8, from 15:00 UTC to 16:00 UTC
At #overseers on irc.libera.chat

$ date -d "Fri May 8 15:00 UTC 2026"

Last year was all about refreshing and expanding our hardware and
servers, moving into bigger datacenters and run all our services in
VMs instead of on bare metal servers.
https://sourceware.org/sourceware-wiki/servers-and-services-2026/

We spend a good chunk of our budget on bigger/faster hardware. But
also raised twice as much (individual) donations as the year before.

This looks pretty good and puts us "ahead of schedule". We predicted we
needed 3 years to raise enough money to refresh our hardware again. But
seem to have done it in one.

So for next year we can probably be a little more ambitious and also
request some more corporate funding and approach some grant makers to
accellerate some of the plans we discussed. There are a couple of
plans that could go a lot faster if we could hire some consultant or a
sysadmin that could execute them.

See also our previous Sourceware Survey results and Budget priority
discussions:
https://inbox.sourceware.org/20260412192052.GA15385@gnu.wildebeest.org

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