0x65: Linux Foundation's Community Bridge

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x65-Linux-Foundation-Community-Bridge.ogg"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_ogg_button.png"/></a> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x65-Linux-Foundation-Community-Bridge.mp3"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in MP3 format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_mp3_button.png"/></a> </p> <p> Bradley and Karen discuss and critique the new initiative by the <a href="https://communitybridge.org/">Linux Foundation called CommunityBridge</a>. The podcast includes various analysis that expands upon <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/mar/13/lf-community-bridge/">their blog post about Linux Foundation's CommunityBridge</a>. </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4> Segment 0 (00:36)</h4> <ul> <li>Conservancy helped Free Software Foundation and GNOME Foundation begin fiscal sponsorship work. (07:50)</li> <li>Conservancy has always been very coordinated with Software in the Public Interest, which is a FOSS fiscal sponsor that predates Conservancy. (08:26)</li> <li>Conservancy helped NumFocus get started as a fiscal sponsor by providing advice. (08:53)</li> <li>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)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that projects that are forks can end up in different fiscal sponsors, such as <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/hudson/">Hudson being in Eclipse Foundation</a>, and <a href="https://www.cloudbees.com/press/cloudbees-jenkins-jenkins-x-linux-foundation-google-launch-continuous-delivery-foundation">Jenkins being associated with a Linux Foundation sub-org</a>. (10:30)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that any project &mdash; be it SourceForge, GitHub, or Community Bridge &mdash; that attempts to convince FOSS developers to use proprietary software for their projects is immediately suspect (12:00)</li> <li><a href="https://opencollective.com/">Open Collective</a>, a for-profit company seeking to do fiscal sponsorship</a> (but attempting to release their code for it) is likely under the worst &ldquo;competitive&rdquo; threat from this initiative. (19:50)</li> </ul> <h4> Segment 1 (21:23)</h4> <ul> <li>Projects that use <a href="https://communitybridge.org/acceptable-use/">CommunityBridge are required to act in the common business interest of the Linux Foundation members</a>. (27:30)</li> <li>Board of Directors seats at the Linux Foundation are for sale, according to their by-laws. (28:50)</li> <li>Bradley advises that you should not put anything copylefted into CommunityBridge &mdash; given Linux Foundation's position on copyleft and citing the ArduPilot/DroneCode example. (29:50)</li> <li><a href="https://communitybridge.org/faq/">CommunityBridge appears to only allow governance based on the &ldquo;benevolent dictator for life model&rdquo;</a> (31:40), at least with regard to who controls the money (34:30)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/782887/">LWN article about Community Bridge</a>. (33:22)</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 2 (36:54)</h4> <ul> <li>Karen mentioned that CommunityBridge also purports to address diversity and security issues for FOSS projects. (37:00)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the code hosted on <a href="https://k.sfconservancy.org">k.sfconservancy.org</a> and also the <a href="https://github.com/conservancy/reimbursinator">Reimbursenator project</a> that PSU students wrote. (42:00)</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 3 (42:44)</h4> <p>Bradley and Karen discuss (or, possibly don't) discuss what's coming up on the next episode. Fact of the matter is that <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/apr/02/vmware-no-appeal/">this announcement wasn't written yet</a> 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.</p> <hr width="80%"/> <p>Send feedback and comments on the cast to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a>. You can keep in touch with <a href="https://faif.us">Free as in Freedom</a> on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by <a href="http://identi.ca/conservancy">following Conservancy on identi.ca</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/conservancy">and Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Free as in Freedom is produced by <a href="http://danlynch.org/blog/">Dan Lynch</a> of <a href="http://danlynch.org/">danlynch.org</a>. 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