An update from the Geeko Foundation Douglas DeMaio & Patrick Fitzgerald https://geekos.org geekos @GeekosOrg 

Geeko Foundation Intro ● Founded in 2023 ● Mission: A global network supporting emerging open- source projects through sponsorships, donations, and collaboration ● Provide financial and organizational support for open- source projects & community events ● Fundraising venture to support open-source communities 

Geeko Foundation Intro ● Working toward not-for-profit status ● Foundation created to provide independence to ensure project’s long-term stability if necessary ● Seeking more engagement from the community ● Trustees/Officers are Croatian, American and Australian 

About Us Patrick Fitzgerald Founder [email protected] Douglas DeMaio Trustee [email protected] Svebor Prstačić Trustee [email protected] Each Officer has more than 25% but not more than 50% of ownership voting rights 

Community Engagement ● Providing talks, running booths, advocating for projects, fund raising on the community’s behalf ● openSUSE Conference, openSUSE.Asia Summit, FOSDEM, FrOSCon, FOSSCOMM, ScaLE, Linux Application Summit, Akademy, dors/cluc, Chemnitz Linux Tage, Google Summer of Code Mentors Summit, SUSECON 

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) ● Second year supporting community ● Funds sent to assist mentors attend the Google Summer of Code Mentors Summit – Administrative tasks – Support for community participating in these effort ● Helps with exposure of the foundation and projects it supports ● Attended event at FOSDEM 

Events and Merchandise ● Allows for funds to be captured and put to use for and by the community – Event sponsorship funds going to community – Branded merchandise can now be captured ● Spreadshirt ● Freewear – Donations, Unreimbursed Volunteer Contributions ● Thankful for those who are supporting these efforts 

Travel Support Program ● Requested to take over the TSP in September of 2023 ● Provided TSP support since October 2023 (Approved by openSUSE board) ● Requests & Amounts increased since Geeko Foundation runs it ● Looking for help to run it ● Challenges still remain – Aiming for a standardized amount for events – People’s requests, lifestyle, expectations differ 

Travel Support Program ● For openSUSE.Asia Summit (Received 10,000 USD for purpose) – More than 28,000 USD in requests – 12,881 USD approved ● Transportation – Location Limit based on max 600 USD ● Included Europe, Americas and parts of Asia – 70% ranging from 420 USD to low of 154 USD ● Hotel – Max Limit 260 USD at 100% – Everyone got 60% (156 USD per person) 

Partnerships and Collaboration ● SUSE ● ARM ● Amazon ● i-Layer ● Many more 

Future Plans ● Our “POD” (Point of Donation System) needs some help to round out features. Interested? 

Future Plans ● We are currently working with FOSSCOMM 2024 to provide “treasury services” – and we need to automate the interactions between: – Wise (our bank) – Stripe (our payment provider) – Xero (our accounting system) ● Result: a simple way to run events, attract donors and make payments – With minimal involvement from Geeko Foundation ● We need your help: do you know Python/Django/REST? 

Thank You [email protected] [email protected] 

Donations Donate Some Yen Now! (or visit geekos.org/donate) 

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