Managing the Finances of an Open Source Non-Profit
- Overview of information and stats on the Apache Software Foundation (see http://www.apache.org/foundation/)
- An overview of the requirements for a foundation
- Direct contributions via Paypal
- One reasonable source of funds was http://donateacar.com/
- ~ $50k from Google
- ~ $25k from conferences
- A quick overview of the history of finances at the ASF
- A quick overview of the requirements for the various forms of US non-profits
- Justin mentions that the ASF received excellent help from the Software Freedom Legal Center (http://softwarefreedom.org) - pro-bono, but only for FLOSS projects
Tools
- SVN is used to keep a consistent log of activities
- Quickbooks