A hot take

In particular:

"To any young Free Software hackers reading, if you're involved in some project that has an entity/trust/association/corporate/foundation managing your donations; and you _don't_ have *full* transparency into _what_ its income is and _how_ those are being distributed, and on a *timely basis* (not "2 years after the current fiscal year, whenever ProPublica manage to acquire the /meagre/ IRS filing" - but more like weekly), then _get_ that transparency and make sure everything is correct and fair. Do *not* simply take things on trust that the 50+yo FOSS-svengalis who run the board and appoint the executive (if not one of themselves) are working in your interests. They may or may not look after you, but they will /certainly/ look after themselves when it comes to any salaries. If you can not get that transparency, that is a _major red flag_!! Please heed this warning, from someone who was once unfortunately naive on this."