<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Hi Even,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the suggestions. I've made the pull request at <a href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer-documentation/pull/877">https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer-documentation/pull/877</a><br></div><div>It might also be good to separate out past and current sponsors in a future pull request. <br></div><div>The budget suggestion sounds good - I've added that as an agenda item to the PSC meeting, see <a href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/wiki/PSC-Meeting-2024-02-29">https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/wiki/PSC-Meeting-2024-02-29</a>. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Seth<br></div><div><br></div><div id="sig62266145"><div class="signature">--<br></div><div class="signature">web:<a href="https://geographika.net">https://geographika.net</a> & <a href="https://mapserverstudio.net">https://mapserverstudio.net</a><br></div><div class="signature">twitter: @geographika<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>On Sat, Feb 3, 2024, at 4:10 PM, Even Rouault wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>Hi Seth,<br></div><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:ff2e8e68-633c-4071-bb15-3e79598eb7f0@app.fastmail.com"><div>I've found another sponsors page in the docs at <a href="https://mapserver.org/community/contributors.html#sponsors-past-and-present" class="qt-moz-txt-link-freetext">https://mapserver.org/community/contributors.html#sponsors-past-and-present</a><br></div><div>I think this is the more recent version, and so <a href="https://mapserver.org/development/sponsors.html" class="qt-moz-txt-link-freetext">https://mapserver.org/development/sponsors.html</a> should be removed.<br></div><div>I'd also like to add a couple of new sponsors to this page
who've funded some of my time on MapServer for the last year(s).
What is the process for this? Do I just need to make a pull
request and merge to the docs, or do we need to vote?<br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><p>No need for voting for that IMHO. Just go ahead with a PR,
de-duplicating those 2 somewhat overlapping pages, and making
relevant additions.<br></p><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:ff2e8e68-633c-4071-bb15-3e79598eb7f0@app.fastmail.com"><div>Looking at the board meeting notes from <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2024-01-30" class="qt-moz-txt-link-freetext">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2024-01-30</a> it looks like we won't get the budget request this year:<br></div><div><br></div><div>> Regarding projects, they have been asked to consider
sponsorship within their annual financial needs. The board has<br></div><div>> decided on a maximum 2.5k USD for each project, due to
the tight budget of OSGeo.<br></div><div><br></div><div>We might have to revise planned activities for the year
listed at <a href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/wiki/MapServer-2024-Budget" class="qt-moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/wiki/MapServer-2024-Budget</a><br></div><div>I should know on the 11th of February if the MapServer
workshop is accepted for FOSS4G Europe.<br></div><div>To cover the other items I think it would be worth sending an
email to the mapserver-users list linking to <a href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/wiki/Sponsorship" class="qt-moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/wiki/Sponsorship</a>.<br></div><div>I can draft the email and send here first for review.<br></div><div><br></div><div>PSC members (and others) - please let me know your thoughts
on the above,<br></div></blockquote><p>Perhaps just keep the 2 top items (release management &
workshop) and cut each to $1,250 each to fit in the 2.5k ?<br></p><div>Even<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></span><br></div><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:ff2e8e68-633c-4071-bb15-3e79598eb7f0@app.fastmail.com"><pre class="qt-moz-quote-pre"><br></pre></blockquote><pre class="qt-moz-signature" cols="72">--
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