• GNUToolchainFund

The GNU Toolchain Fund

The GNU Toolchain fund was created in 2016 to support the GNU Toolchain.

The fund provides support for community driven strategic toolchain related projects including support for the annual GNU Tools Cauldron, and developer subsidies to attend the event.

The GNU Toolchain fund is a part of the FSF's Working Together for Free Software Fund.

You can donate directly to the GNU Toolchain fund.

The fund's current trustees are:

• Joel Brobecker
• David Edelsohn
• Carlos O'Donell

Please feel free to contact any of the trustees to discuss potential projects.

Requesting Developer Grants

Having developers meet face to face is important and builds connections in our communities.

The GNU Toolchain fund trustees need organizer help in order to process grant requests.

We appreciate the time and energy you put into this process to improve the diversity of our community.

The organizers of the event are often the best placed to talk with developers, determine who their sponsors are if any, and gather the needed information.

If you are organizing an event e.g. GNU Tools Cauldron, a GNU Toolchain Devroom at FOSDEM and you would like to support developers to attend those events then please follow these steps:

• Start a discussion with the Trustees to determine if the event is something that the fund can support.
• If the event can be supported set a deadline for grant request submission, and deadline for grant approval. Work with the trustees to set these dates.
• As developer grant requests arrive send one email per developer to start a conversation with the trustees to ensure the grant request is in the queue for review.

  • The single email to start the conversation should have the subject "[Action Required] GNU Toolchain Fund: Grant request for <persons name>" to support a timely review.

  • Developers must provide details about their work and how attending the event supports their involvement in the community e.g. previous-GSOC student, working with developer, working on feature X.
  • If Developers have a sponsor, someone in the community already that they are working with, then that sponsor should provide a supporting statement along with the developer grant request.
  • Developers must provide an estimate for the grant and documentation as evidence for the estimate e.g. airfare, conference fees etc.
• Between the deadline for grant request and the deadline for grant approval the trustees will work to decide which grants are accepted or rejected and communicate that back to the event organizers and developer.

If a grant request is accepted by the trustees then the developer is approved to expense items up to the limit of the approval for the uses specified in the request.

If a grant request is rejected by the trustees then the developer is not entitled to expense any amount.

The trustees will work to provided such acceptance or rejection by the agreed upon deadline for grant approval for the event.

Thanking the sponsors

It is entirely optional, but if the developers receiving the grant would like to thank the sponsors, please feel free to use the following text:

    Attendance at [Name of event] was supported by the GNU Toolchain fund,
    a part of the FSF's Working Together for Free Software Fund:
    <https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=57>.

Developer Reimbursement Requirements

Developers will only be reimbursed for expenses as described in the grant request and up to the limit of the approved estimate.

The trustees will exercise their sole discretion in approving additional expenses related to the trip that were not part of the original grant request.

We ask that developers save receipts and choose the lowest, reasonable fares along with screenshots of comparable fares.

After the expenses are incurred the fund trustees and the FSF will work with the developers to reimburse the approved expenses.

Glossary

• Approved expenses - Those expenses that were listed in the approved grant request.
• Deadline for grant approval - The date at which the trustees must decide to approve or reject grant requests. This deadline should be before the developers must make travel decisions for the event.
• Grant request date - The date at which the developer submitted the grant to the organizer of the event.
• Grant approval - The grant request with an estimate is approved and developer expenses up to the limit of approval will be reimbursed by the fund.