On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 12:32 AM Louis-Philippe Véronneau <po...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 2022-06-19 05 h 42, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 07:43:06PM -0400, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > >> ==== Text of GR ==== > >> > >> Donations to the Debian project of assets other than the TO's currency > >> of choice should be liquidated as soon as possible. > >> > >> ==== End Text of GR ==== > > > > what does that even mean? > > > > also, is there a rationale? and a benefit? and ideas, how to? > > We had a nice discussion on debian-private (the thread is named > "Volatile assets, Debian money and SPI"), so I didn't feel I needed to > have a long text explaining the rationale.
If you don't like "volatile", I guess you mean it's better to choose gold, silver, and oil. > For those not on that list, the TL;DR would be: a kind donor gave Debian > stock (SPDR S&P 500 trust ETFs) and SPI has been holding on to it since > then. I think holding S&P 500 ETF can make hedging towards inflation for the long term. Although I know lately it's declining due to a few facts. > For multiple reasons, I believe such volatile assets should be sold as > soon as possible instead of holding on to it :) > > As for "how to", that's up to TOs and their local law. If they don't > want to bother having a mechanism to sell non-fiat financial assets that > people give them, they can decide not to accept those kind of donations. It's hard to define "volatile assets", or "non-volatile assets". You can always find the exceptions. So I think keeping diversity of the assets Debian holds can make the project better, rather than just trusting a few types of printed paper from the governments or private organizations. Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
