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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Even,<br>
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Thanks for bringing this up. As Jody, has pointed out,<br>
the funding GDAL through "Project Sponsorship" [1]<br>
of OSGeo Foundation is possible. I do think that our .501(c)(4) <br>
status does no restrict sponsorship opportunities is anyway. <br>
As in the past, the OSGeo board will be happy to manage the <br>
this under "Project Sponsorship" [1].<br>
<br>
QGIS and gvSIG associations must had a good reason to manage<br>
their sponsorship independently. One of the reasons that they<br>
decided to do so could be because it was more convenient, I guess.<br>
<br>
Funding developers directly is also a possibility, but in some
cases<br>
the sponsors may like to have their paperwork done through an<br>
officially registered foundation or association.<br>
<br>
Personally, I think that managing GDAL sponsorship would depend<br>
on what is most convenient for the PSC and potential Project <br>
Sponsors. <br>
<br>
The board would be happy to assist in managing the GDAL "Project<br>
Sposorship".<br>
<br>
Best <br>
<br>
Venka<br>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities">http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship/opportunities</a><br>
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On 2016/02/21 2:15, Jody Garnett wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Project sponsorship works, we fixed the tax stuff.
I best make a news announcement.
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 5:26 AM Even Rouault <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com"><even.rouault@spatialys.com></a>
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<pre wrap="">Hi board,
I just received an email from a company, as a long time user of GDAL, that
would have been interested in sponsoring it. They found
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gdal.org/sponsorship.html">http://gdal.org/sponsorship.html</a>, that is a remain of the time were there
was
a sponsorhip program through OSGeo (I should probably remove the page
completely). As far as I understand, due to the 501(c)(4) status, this is
no
longer possible.
So currently they have no direct way of sponsoring GDAL specific
activities,
except sponsoring developers directly. Sponsoring OSGeo is of course a way
of
indirectly sponsoring OSGeo projects, for example to fund the shared IT
infrastructure, or code sprints, but this has a more limited impact on
day-to-
day maintenance activities led by a project: bug triage & fixing,
reviewing &
applying contributions, monitoring and maintenance of coutinuous
integration
environments, user assistance on mailing list, release process, ...
I'm not sure if there's a way forward for this. QGIS has for example
established their qgis.org association for activities that are close to
the
past OSGeo project sponsorship. I see there's a GvSIG association too.
Perhaps
other projects with similar needs have adopted similar solutions.
I'm not particularly requesting any action from the board. This was just to
share this experience and see if the board has some thoughts about the
topic
in general. For example, if the solution of project-specific associations
is
something that the board is happy with or would encourage, or if it is
indifferent to funding solutions the projects may adopt. Direct funding of
developers is also a solution, although for most activities I mentioned
above,
it can be difficult to get, contrary to funding that is feature oriented.
And
even if you get it, formally, it's funding of developer/company X, and not
of
project Y.
By the way, I see the GDAL page points to
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Sponsorship">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Sponsorship</a> : I guess this one is no
longer
valid ?
Cheers,
Even
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