[gdal-dev] Sustainable GDAL initiative and fundraising

[Even Rouault]

Hi Ian,

> Is there a link to a web page that discusses this and provides a point 
> to donate at?

Not yet. We are still in the process of completing our application with 
NumFOCUS. Eventually there will be a page on their website dedicated to 
the GDAL project with instructions how to donate, and the GDAL website 
will point to that. We considered waiting for that to be ready before 
this announcement, but keeping all those discussions private began to be 
against the spirit of how we operate. We'll also setup an email alias so 
that new sponsors can contact us with questions & pledges.

==> PSC: should we ask for a gdal-sponsors at osgeo.org email alias ? Who 
want to be in it ? I'd suggest we open it to Chris Holmes too who could 
potentially be interested to help on the sponsoring side (pending his 
confirmation)

Even

>
> Ian
>
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 14:33, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com 
> <mailto:even.rouault at spatialys.com>> wrote:
>
>     All,
>
>     I wanted to inform you about an initiative that the PSC recently
>     started, and which is now sufficiently advanced to share and develop
>     further publicly along with the larger GDAL community. As you all
>     know,
>     GDAL is a foundational piece of the open-source and proprietary
>     geospatial software ecosystem. While the project has successfully
>     attracted contributions for adding new features and capabilities, it
>     lacked financial capacity and a vehicle to support difficult-to-fund
>     maintenance and infrastructure.
>
>     The PSC recently applied to be fiscally hosted by NumFOCUS
>     (https://numfocus.org <https://numfocus.org>) to receive donations
>     to provide that vehicle (*).
>     I should underline that GDAL is and will continue to remain a OSGeo
>     project for all other concerns.
>
>     We approached a first round of potential sponsors and received
>     substantial multi-year pledges, which make us confident that our
>     minimum
>     target, of being able to fund the equivalent of a full-time senior
>     engineer for three years, will eventually be reached. These resources
>     will help fund *several* co-maintainers, enable increasing the bus
>     factor of the project, and address the many tasks (ticket triaging
>     and
>     addressing, CI maintenance, pull request reviews, release management,
>     etc.) needed to make it even better.
>
>     The sponsorship funding will be entirely used for activities that
>     benefit the project and its associated dependencies such as PROJ,
>     libgeotiff, and libtiff. The PSC will be developing procedures and
>     details of how the sponsorship resources will be allocated, and we
>     will
>     update the GDAL website with them as they are finalized.
>
>     Finally, we would like to thank our initial sponsors, who have
>     provided
>     the project with generous three-year pledges of support:
>     - Platinium (50k USD/yr): Microsoft and Planet
>     - Gold (25k USD/yr): Esri, Google, Safe Software
>     - Silver (10k USD/yr): Koordinates, Sparkgeo, Mapgears
>
>     On behalf of the PSC,
>
>     Even
>
>     (*) NumFocus being a 501(c)3 organization, donations from US
>     companies
>     and persons are tax deductible.
>
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> Ian Turton

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