From 495156ddaacefd785d7532c3ec2b6dc7f85695b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 11:32:50 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] docs: describe BTC/development agreement with Aspiration update docs/donations.rst with the transfer address --- docs/aspiration-contract.txt | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ docs/donations.rst | 22 +++++++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) create mode 100644 docs/aspiration-contract.txt diff --git a/docs/aspiration-contract.txt b/docs/aspiration-contract.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6da3e73ea --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/aspiration-contract.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +In December 2018, the Tahoe-LAFS project engaged Aspiration[1], a US 501(c)3 +nonprofit technology organization, as a "fiscal sponsor"[2]. A portion of the +project's Bitcoin will be given to Aspiration, from which they can pay +developers and contractors to work on the Tahoe codebase. Aspiration will +handle the payroll, taxes, accounting, project management, and oversight, and +is compensated by an 8% management fee. This provides the tax-withholding +structure to use our project's BTC for significant development. + +We're using 25% of our ~369 BTC for this initial stage of the project, +which will give us about $300K-$350K of development work, spread out +over the 2019 calendar year. While it would have been nice to make this +happen a year ago (given the recent decline of the BTC price), we think +this is a reasonable value, and we're excited to finally get to use this +surprise windfall to improve the codebase. + +Our initial set of projects to fund, drafted by Liz Steininger of Least +Authority and approved by Zooko and Brian, looks like this: + +* porting Tahoe and dependent libraries to Python 3 +* improving grid operation/management tools +* community outreach, UI/UX improvements, documentation +* adding new community-requested features, improving garbage collection +* possibly run another summit + +If this goes well (and especially if the BTC price recovers), we'll +probably do more next year. + +As usual, the transfer amounts and addresses will be logged in +"donations.rst" and "expenses.rst" in the docs/ directory. + +Many thanks to Gunner and Josh Black of Aspiration, and Liz Steininger +of Least Authority, for making this possible. + +[1]: https://aspirationtech.org/ +[2]: https://aspirationtech.org/services/openprojects diff --git a/docs/donations.rst b/docs/donations.rst index 510c0a605..a38e280ac 100644 --- a/docs/donations.rst +++ b/docs/donations.rst @@ -73,6 +73,10 @@ key on this list. ~$1020 1DskmM8uCvmvTKjPbeDgfmVsGifZCmxouG +* Aspiration contract (first phase, 2019) + $300k-$350k + 1gDXYQNH4kCJ8Dk7kgiztfjNUaA1KJcHv + Historical Donation Addresses ============================= @@ -100,17 +104,17 @@ This document is signed by the Tahoe-LAFS Release-Signing Key (GPG keyid (https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs.git) as `docs/donations.rst`. Both actions require access to secrets held closely by Tahoe developers. -signed: Brian Warner, 10-Nov-2016 +signed: Brian Warner, 27-Dec-2018 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- -Version: GnuPG v2 -iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJYJVQBAAoJEL3g0x1oZmp6/8gIAJ5N2jLRQgpfIQTbVvhpnnOc -MGV/kTN5yiN88laX91BPiX8HoAYrBcrzVH/If/2qGkQOGt8RW/91XJC++85JopzN -Gw8uoyhxFB2b4+Yw2WLBSFKx58CyNoq47ZSwLUpard7P/qNrN+Szb26X0jDLo+7V -XL6kXphL82b775xbFxW6afSNSjFJzdbozU+imTqxCu+WqIRW8iD2vjQxx6T6SSrA -q0aLSlZpmD2mHGG3C3K2yYnX7C0BoGR9j4HAN9HbXtTKdVxq98YZOh11jmU1RVV/ -nTncD4E1CMrv/QqmktjXw/2shiGihYX+3ZqTO5BAZerORn0MkxPOIvESSVUhHVw= -=Oj0C +iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEE405i0G0Oac/KQXn/veDTHWhmanoFAlwlrdsACgkQveDTHWhm +anqEqQf/SdxMvI0+YbsZe+Gr/+lNWrNtfxAkjgLUZYRPmElZG6UKkNuPghXfsYRM +71nRbgbn05jrke7AGlulxNplTxYP/5LQVf5K1nvTE7yPI/LBMudIpAbM3wPiLKSD +qecrVZiqiIBPHWScyya91qirTHtJTJj39cs/N9937hD+Pm65paHWHDZhMkhStGH7 +05WtvD0G+fFuAgs04VDBz/XVQlPbngkmdKjIL06jpIAgzC3H9UGFcqe55HKY66jK +W769TiRuGLLS07cOPqg8t2hPpE4wv9Gs02hfg1Jc656scsFuEkh5eMMj/MXcFsED +8vwn16kjJk1fkeg+UofnXsHeHIJalQ== +=/E+V -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----