<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'm +1. &nbsp;<div><br></div><div>I think the community gets amazing value out of the code sprints/bunkers and if there are sufficient donations to support a code sprint, I think that would be very well received by the community.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Paul<br><div><br><div><div>On 2011-05-12, at 7:34 PM, Tim Schaub wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 5/12/11 3:00 PM, Schuyler Erle wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On May 12, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Tim Schaub wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I've asked Tyler @OSGeo to set up a PayPal account for OpenLayers -<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">as a way for us to accept "micro-donations" to the project and<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">OSGeo. &nbsp;We have a larger sponsorship program for people wishing to<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">make more substantial contributions<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="http://openlayers.org/sponsorship/">http://openlayers.org/sponsorship/</a>). &nbsp;I like the idea of being<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">able to accept smaller financial contributions from those who are<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">able to make them.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am pretty much +0, but I have a question: For what purpose are we<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">planning to use the donations? I am all for encouraging the community<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to support the project, but I am wondering what kind of support we<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">need.<br></blockquote><br>This question is also relevant for our Sponsorship program (<a href="http://openlayers.org/sponsorship/">http://openlayers.org/sponsorship/</a>). &nbsp;At the time we decided to go ahead with that, we created this list of ideas:<br><br><a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/wiki/Sponsorship/Uses">http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/wiki/Sponsorship/Uses</a><br><br>Also see <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/openlayers-dev/2008-October/003586.html">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/openlayers-dev/2008-October/003586.html</a><br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">SDE<br></blockquote><br><br>-- <br>Tim Schaub<br>OpenGeo - <a href="http://opengeo.org">http://opengeo.org</a><br>Expert service straight from the developers.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Dev@lists.osgeo.org">Dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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