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#+TITLE: Guix Europe, how to support the Guix project

* What do we do?

+ Helping the Guix project
+ Facilitator (pay some bills)

** Website

http://foundation.guix.info/

(source: https://framagit.org/guix-europe/website)

** Details

+ Founded in 2016
+ Non-profit registered in France

+ Board: (= legal representative)
  - now: Andreas, Julien, Oliver, Simon
  - previous: Andreas, Manolis
  - previous-previous: Andreas, Mathieu

  (no need to be French-related)
  (minimal number of members declared to French administrative)

** Examples

+ Help in organizing Guix Days (FOSDEM satellite unconference)
+ Various contributions to this 10 year event
+ Coordinate with [[mailto:guix-finance@gnu.org][guix-finance@gnu.org]] spending committer
  (facilitate payement of hardware)
+ (money) from donations -> Pay the bill
+

* How?

Explained by Andreas this morning

** Entry point

[[mailto:guix-europe@gnu.org][guix-europe@gnu.org]]

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-europe/

** Transparent

[[https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/guix-europe][https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/]]
$ tree -L 1 guix-europe/
guix-europe/
├── accounting
├── minutes
└── statuts

** Collective leadership

Solidary Administrative Council (SAC)

[[mailto:guix-europe-sac@gnu.org][guix-europe-sac@gnu.org]]

* What is next?

It *depends on you*!

** Be member

+ Reach Andreas
+ Pay your fee (10€ per year)
+ Done.

** Ideas

Most is non-technical

+ Monthly newsletters see [[https://git.github.io/rev_news/rev_news/][Git Rev News]]
  + Promote reviewers and helpers
  + Help people learn about Guix development
  + Propagate misc Guix news

  curated digest of: help-guix, guix-devel, guix-patches (updates), Reddit,
  blog posts, etc.

  interviews with contributors (sharing views, tools, workflow, etc.)

  etc.

+ more Collaborations with [[https://whereis.みんな/][whereis.みんな/]]
+ Administrative tasks: tax reduction for donations?
+ some ideas had been already discussed this morning

+ Your ideas...