<div dir="ltr">It is great to see that set up - if I understand correctly sponsoring via github is "better" than paypal in that it does not take an overhead percentage.<div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 at 11:31, Victoria Rautenbach <<a href="mailto:victoria.rautenbach@gmail.com">victoria.rautenbach@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">News item at, <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-github-sponsors-profile-is-live/" target="_blank">https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-github-sponsors-profile-is-live/</a><br><br>OSGeo provides financial, organisational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community, but we rely on our sponsors to enable us to do this for the community. Firstly, we would like to thank and acknowledge all <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/sponsors/" target="_blank">our current sponsors</a>! To make it easier for the larger user community of our projects to support and sponsor OSGeo, we decided to join the GitHub sponsorship programme.<br><br><a href="https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/supporting-the-open-source-community-with-github-sponsors/about-github-sponsors" target="_blank">GitHub Sponsors</a> allows the developer community to financially support the people and organizations who design, build, and maintain the open source projects they depend on, directly on GitHub. We are still accepting sponsors via communication with the treasure or paypal, this is just an added method (read more on <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/about/how-to-become-a-sponsor/" target="_blank">How to become a sponsor?</a>).<br><br>Through the GitHub sponsorship programme, we received our first $10 USD/month sponsorship within 26 minutes (wow)! So we hope to get more sponsors via GitHub that can enable us to provide more resources to our projects and invest in our global community.<div><br></div><div>GitHub Become a sponsor to OSGeo, <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/OSGeo" target="_blank">https://github.com/sponsors/OSGeo</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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