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<p>Hi Ian,<br>
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<div>Is there a link to a web page that discusses this and
provides a point to donate at? <br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>==> PSC: should we ask for a <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gdal-sponsors@osgeo.org">gdal-sponsors@osgeo.org</a> 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)<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 14:33,
Even Rouault <<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>>
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0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">All,<br>
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I wanted to inform you about an initiative that the PSC
recently <br>
started, and which is now sufficiently advanced to share and
develop <br>
further publicly along with the larger GDAL community. As you
all know, <br>
GDAL is a foundational piece of the open-source and
proprietary <br>
geospatial software ecosystem. While the project has
successfully <br>
attracted contributions for adding new features and
capabilities, it <br>
lacked financial capacity and a vehicle to support
difficult-to-fund <br>
maintenance and infrastructure.<br>
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The PSC recently applied to be fiscally hosted by NumFOCUS <br>
(<a href="https://numfocus.org" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://numfocus.org</a>)
to receive donations to provide that vehicle (*). <br>
I should underline that GDAL is and will continue to remain a
OSGeo <br>
project for all other concerns.<br>
<br>
We approached a first round of potential sponsors and received
<br>
substantial multi-year pledges, which make us confident that
our minimum <br>
target, of being able to fund the equivalent of a full-time
senior <br>
engineer for three years, will eventually be reached. These
resources <br>
will help fund *several* co-maintainers, enable increasing the
bus <br>
factor of the project, and address the many tasks (ticket
triaging and <br>
addressing, CI maintenance, pull request reviews, release
management, <br>
etc.) needed to make it even better.<br>
<br>
The sponsorship funding will be entirely used for activities
that <br>
benefit the project and its associated dependencies such as
PROJ, <br>
libgeotiff, and libtiff. The PSC will be developing procedures
and <br>
details of how the sponsorship resources will be allocated,
and we will <br>
update the GDAL website with them as they are finalized.<br>
<br>
Finally, we would like to thank our initial sponsors, who have
provided <br>
the project with generous three-year pledges of support:<br>
- Platinium (50k USD/yr): Microsoft and Planet<br>
- Gold (25k USD/yr): Esri, Google, Safe Software<br>
- Silver (10k USD/yr): Koordinates, Sparkgeo, Mapgears<br>
<br>
On behalf of the PSC,<br>
<br>
Even<br>
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(*) NumFocus being a 501(c)3 organization, donations from US
companies <br>
and persons are tax deductible.<br>
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