<div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto"></blockquote><div dir="auto">Indeed this is just one way to respond,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto">That's a major issue. Members of steering committees are unpaid <br>
volunteers. They are more or less active. With our current organization, <br>
they are not in a capacity to face regulation requirements. Basically <br>
that would mean that projects should have salaried members, at least <br>
part-time, to do that.</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Good idea. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Or rotate through PSC members with a small contract to monitor communication - say three months at a stretch. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So we would be expecting some kind of sustaining sponsorship from business such as yours. In trade you get vacations :)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">By pooling resources we cover for each other. And by acting I behalf of OSGeo we are not indirect line of fire as individuals.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Advocacy rant mode on</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Pretty much the whole reason to setup a software foundation folks. I love that OSGeo allows us to set up one software foundation (rather than each project having to do this work themselves.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">OSGeo has a <b>extremely</b> low “bronze” sponsorship threshold of $500 USD (which goes down to $375 for reciting sponsors). I have a non active company how2map which has been sponsoring at this level for some years. So I am doing my best to put my money (and volunteer capacity) where my speech is. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Advocacy rant mode off.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am going to go back to being quiet. Thank you for your response Even. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jody</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto"><br>
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