On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Ian Lynagh
Dear Haskellers,
In recent years, haskell.org has started to receive assets, e.g. money from Google Summer Of Code, donations for Hackathons, and a Sparc machine for use in GHC development. We have also started spending this money: on the community server, on a server to take over hosting haskell.org itself, and on the haskell.org domain name. There is also interest in running fundraising drives for specific things such as Hackathon sponsorship and hosting fees.
However, it is not currently clear who is responsible for determining what the haskell.org money should be spent on, or what are and are not acceptable uses of the domain name and hardware.
The darcs project uses the Software Freedom Conservancy as a sort of legal entity to hold on to funds and also to help in case anyone takes legal action against darcs or darcs needs to take legal action. You might consider joining the SFC as "haskell.org". I don't know enough about the SFC or haskell.org to know if it would be beneficial, so I'm just sort of throwing it out there as something to investigate. You might talk to Eric Kow if you're interested. I believe he coordinated the process. http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/ Jason