Hello Adrian, El mié, 22 jul 2026 a las 13:21, Adrian Bunk (<[email protected]>) escribió:
> The first problem would be the requirement "that the applicant is a > qualifying nonprofit organization", which is the old issue that Debian > is not a legal entity. > > Perhaps SPI might be sufficient. Yes, SPI qualifies. > > (since all of it would require > > financial control and lots of paperwork)? > > This is the longstanding problem that a non-profit project of our size > and asking for donations should really have a proper budget process and > annual financial reports on our website. That should be covered by SPI, the non-profit, Debian is associated project. > The program you are linking to would be one person paid full-time for > two years, and then there would have to be both a suitable project > planned, and confidence that paying money there won't have a negative > impact on the unpaid volunteers working in that area. > > A project that might fit the last bullet point of Objective 1 in this > grant would be to make our own infrastructure more resilient, two years > wouldn't be too much for designing, discussing and implementing improvements. > > But such a project would have to be properly planned before applying. > And it would need someone available with the required skills in > security and AI. When reading your email about "security team burnout", I thought this fund could be an option to mitigate such concern, however, how could make it fit and work for the project? Would it be valuable? Regards -- Héctor Orón -.. . -... .. .- -. -.. . ...- . .-.. --- .--. . .-.
