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    <p>Jody, a blog post would be a good forum for such a "press
      release".</p>
    <p>I can help with reviewing the post, if someone who has been
      involved in GSOC can write a first draft. The post can be
      relatively short, maybe just a couple of paragraphs.</p>
    <p>What I think should be covered:</p>
    <p>* Google has donated $$$ to OSGeo</p>
    <p>* OSGeo is very appreciative for this donation. <br>
    </p>
    <p>** (Optional) What are we going to do with this money. It makes
      is very tangible if we can state specifically what the funding us
      to be used for. Otherwise, we can say something less impactful,
      such as "It helps is cover the core expenses of keeping our
      foundation running"<br>
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    <p>* Some mentors have passed on their contribution to OSGeo too<br>
    </p>
    <p>* (Optional) Google has committed $$$ to Open Source as part of
      GSoC</p>
    <p>* (Optional) The split of Google's OSGeo funding went xx%,  to
      OSGeo xx% to Developers, xx% to ...</p>
    <p>* This sponsorship is  WIN/WIN/WIN situation:</p>
    <p>** Helps the sustainability of Open Source - something that
      companies such as Google depend upon.<br>
    </p>
    <p>** Helps attracts students to become Open Source developers<br>
    </p>
    <p>** Raises the profile of Open Source, which in turn benefits all
      software communities</p>
    <p>** Helps fund critical tasks that Open Source projects often have
      challenges getting funded</p>
    <p>** ...</p>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/1/18 11:42 am, Jody Garnett
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      <div dir="ltr">We make the occasional blog post, but have rarely
        gone on to circulate them as a press release (I understand both
        paid and free services are available). If anyone knows more
        perhaps it is something we can improve in 2018.
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        <div>Cameron if you are available to make a blog post it would
          be a good chance to confirm you can access <a
            href="https://staging.www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/"
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                  <div>Jody Garnett</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On 10 January 2018 at 16:34, Cameron
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              <p>This sounds very news worthy and deserves a press
                release.<br>
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              <p>1. It is great for developers to discover that some
                organisations (Google) donate money to Open Source.<br>
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              <p>2. We should offer public good will to Google for being
                such great community citizens. Lets help build the
                social capital of organisations that help us. Hopefully
                that will encourage Google to continue supporting us,
                and might even encourage other organisations to adopt
                similar strategies. <br>
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                    11/1/18 6:12 am, Jody Garnett wrote:<br>
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                    <div dir="ltr">That is good news, I understand some
                      mentors for GSOC also direct funds towards the
                      foundation.
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                      <div>I wonder if the amount from packet publishing
                        ever shows up?</div>
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                                <div>--</div>
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                      <div class="gmail_quote">On 10 January 2018 at
                        11:03, Helmut Kudrnovsky <span dir="ltr"><<a
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                          we would like to inform you that Google
                          transfered some financal gratitude to all 25
                          Google Code-in 2017 organizations for the hard
                          work over the past couple of month. It came as
                          a surprise also for us.<br>
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                          A big thank you to our mentors who are doing
                          really a great job!<br>
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                          OSGeo`s treasurer informed us that he already
                          received it.<br>
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                          Kind regards<br>
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                          Helmut (on behalf of the GCI/GSoC admin team)<br>
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