I am interested in mentorship and will ping you offline 

> On Jan 18, 2020, at 11:09 AM, Oleg Nenashev <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just an update in this thread, I have set up the donations page prototype: 
> https://funding.communitybridge.org/projects/jenkins
> As discussed at the Advocacy&Outreach SIG meeting on Thursday, we will make 
> additional review with CDF to ensure that CommunityBridge Funding is fine for 
> the CDF projects.
> I am pretty sure it will be OK since many CNCF projects are already 
> represented on this Linux Foundation portal, but let's see.
> 
> So now we have two landings:
> Funding
> Mentorship
> To whomever interested in mentorship, right now we can run mentorship 
> programs with stipend and without one. There were some mentee applicants 
> since Nov whom we could review (run a project there or invite to GSoC, for 
> example). If you are interested, ping me in 
> https://gitter.im/jenkinsci/advocacy-and-outreach-sig
> 
> Best regards,
> Oleg Nenashev
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 4:19 PM Oleg Nenashev <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Beta testing of the new funding page was approved at the yesterday's 
>> Governance Meeting, thanks to all for the feedback!
>> I will get the agreements implemented and report back once the reference 
>> implementation is ready.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Friday, December 27, 2019 at 11:47:21 AM UTC+1, Ullrich Hafner wrote:
>>> +1
>>> I like the idea as well. 
>>> 
>>>> Am 26.12.2019 um 13:35 schrieb Oleg Nenashev <[email protected]>:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I am working on the Jenkins donations page update at the moment 
>>>> (INFRA-2396), and I would like to propose some changes there so that we 
>>>> can have a funding source once SPI retires the Jenkins donations as a part 
>>>> of our transition to CDF. Jenkins funding helps us to run outreach 
>>>> programs and to cover some infrastructure costs, and as a board member I 
>>>> think it is really important to keep it running and, ideally, to 
>>>> facilitate funding and using the money in the project.
>>>> 
>>>> TL:DR: Let's use CommunityBridge as a SPI replacement to raise funds. It 
>>>> is maintained by Linux Foundation, and it is recommended for all projects 
>>>> within LF or sub-foundations like CDF. Examples: CHAOSS, Manjaro or KiCAD 
>>>> 
>>>> Background. Jenkins project operates thanks to contributions and 
>>>> sponsorship (infra, meetups, swag, etc, etc.). Historically we did not 
>>>> have high cash flows in the project, we mostly spend money on infra and on 
>>>> outreach programs (swag, travel grants, Outreachy and Community Bridge in 
>>>> 2019). Sponsorship covered the most of our "big" expenses (e.g. Azure, 
>>>> meetup.com, contributor summits, etc.), but there is a tendency to 
>>>> formalize such donations through CDF. Currently sponsorship through CDF is 
>>>> a lengthy process not suitable for small donations, and it would be great 
>>>> to have a simple process so that we can raise money to facilitate the 
>>>> changes in the project.
>>>> 
>>>> Current state
>>>> https://jenkins.io/donate/ documents the donations policy. 
>>>> This page has not been updated for a while, working on it 
>>>> This page basically designates donations to be consumed for Jenkins Infra, 
>>>> There is an explicit statement that "Your contribution is not used for 
>>>> paying personnel.". Arguably, this is what we do for Outreachy and 
>>>> CommunityBridge though stipend for outreach projects != salary
>>>> Jenkins uses SPI to accept donations. Soon SPI will no longer accept 
>>>> donations to Jenkins due as a part of the transition to CDF. The exact 
>>>> date is TBD, but the decision has been already made in Spring 2019 as 
>>>> communicated by Tracy Miranda
>>>> We also accept donations through ffis.de, but the status is unknown 
>>>> (WEBSITE-703 tracks the investigation). It is also not clear whether they 
>>>> have Jenkins money on their accounts and how to access them
>>>> CommunityBridge Funding site is enabled for mentorship donations only as a 
>>>> part of Governance Meeting decisions in July 2019). We used it to dry-run 
>>>> the JCasC Dev Tools project this year, and it works pretty well (except 
>>>> the SPI => LF transfer part which was the major obstacle for the mentee 
>>>> payments).
>>>> Suggested changes
>>>> Update "Your contribution is not used for paying personnel " to be 
>>>> explicit that the Jenkins project might use money to sponsor limited-term 
>>>> work on the project: outreach initiatives, addressing mission-critical 
>>>> topics (e.g. INFRA needs) or facilitating projects required for the 
>>>> Jenkins future' (e.g. JCasC, Cloud Native Jenkins, etc.) 
>>>> All such projects will need to be approved by the Governance meeting 
>>>> The payments should be limited to reasonable amounts so that it is 
>>>> "facilitating contributions / mentorship" but not a fully-paid job. E.g. 
>>>> GSoC stipends could be used as a reference
>>>> Enable CommunityBridge-based sponsorship for all available categories: 
>>>> Development, Marketing, Meetups, Bug Bounty, Travel and Documentation. We 
>>>> update documentation to mark it as a default donations way.
>>>> It will enable organization payments and also small monthly donations by 
>>>> individuals in the Patreon style. E.g. see CHAOSS, Manjaro or KiCAD
>>>> As a risk for this plan, Core Infrastructure Initiative certification is 
>>>> expected for projects on Community Bridge in long term. I got 
>>>> clarification from Linux Foundation that it is not a blocker at the 
>>>> moment. See INFRA-2396 for the context
>>>> CommunityBridge allows donations to be designated to particular areas so 
>>>> that donors can decide what they sponsor
>>>> In the future I would suggest to allow targeted sponsoring of big changes 
>>>> as outreach projects. It is way of the scope for this thread, so I will 
>>>> create a follow-up once I am ready 
>>>> Mark SPI-based donations as deprecated. Even if they continue to work, 
>>>> reimbursements from SPI and transferring money from SPI to Linux 
>>>> Foundation is a lengthy process due to the SPI activist-driven model. SPI 
>>>> helped the project A LOT, but the payments experience should improve since 
>>>> Linux Foundation has full-time employees responsible for payments
>>>> Investigate the status of ffis.de and update the documentation 
>>>> accordingly. Mark as deprecated in the case of doubt
>>>> This proposal does not include raising visibility of the donations page. 
>>>> But we can definitely do it once the new flow is set up and battle-tested.
>>>> 
>>>> If there is a consensus and approval at the next governance meeting, I 
>>>> will proceed by setting up a PoC and creating a JEP draft for funding.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for your time,
>>>> Oleg Nenashev
>>>> 
>>>> 
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