Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/10/04/first-conservancy-post.html

[ Crossposted
from Conservancy’s
blog. ]

As can be seen in
today’s
announcement, today is my first day as full-time Executive Director
at the Software Freedom Conservancy. For four years, I have worked
part-time on nights, weekends, and lunch times to keep Conservancy
running and to implement and administer
the services
that Conservancy provides to
its member
projects. It’s actual quite a relief to now have full-time
attention available to carry out this important work.

From the start, one of my goals with Conservancy has been to run the
non-profit organization as transparently as possible. At times, I’ve
found that when time is limited, keeping the public informed about all
your work is often the first item to fall too far down on the action
item list. Now that Conservancy is my primary, daily focus, I hope to
increase its transparency as much as possible.

Specifically, I plan to keep
a regular blog about activities
of the Conservancy. I’ve found that a public blog is a particular
convenient way to report to the public in a non-onerous way about the
activities of an organization. Indeed, we usually ask those developers
whose work is funded through Conservancy to keep a blog about their
activities, so that the project’s community and the public at large can
get regular updates about the work. I should hold myself to no less a
standard!

I encourage everyone to subscribe to the
full Conservancy site
RSS feed, where you’ll receive both news items and blog posts from
the Conservancy. There are also separate feeds available
for just news
and just blog posts.
Also, if you’re a subscriber to
my personal blog, I will
cross-post these blog posts there, although my posts on Conservancy’s
blog will certainly be a proper subset of my entire personal blog.