[SAC] Direction, budgeting, and resources

[Frank Warmerdam]

Martin Spott wrote:
> Frank,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 03:51:26PM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> Martin Spott wrote:
> 
>>> I suspect I'd be leaving the group if someone is going to get paid for
>>> the interesting, 'authoritative' stuff while the boring rest is being
>>> left to the volunteers. In the end, this might still be a net win for
>>> the SAC.
>> OK, well that largely takes any upside out of paid help.
> 
> Oh, I really didn't intend to blackmail OSGeo SAC as the situation does
> not necessarily have to turn out this way. If the SAC is going to pay
> someone for doing admin work and thus entitle him/her to move/merge or
> dissect config stuff at their own will, this might still get you
> whatever solution quicker than me awaiting at least some sort of
> informal approval to break things for a certain transition period.

Martin,

I don't see it as blackmail at all.  One of the reason we are seeking feedback
is that we don't want to wreck the volunteer dynamic we have already.  There
have been a number of things OSGeo and it's projects have avoided trying to
do "with money" specifically to avoid screwing up the volunteer culture which
is so important to us.

I must confess that even I would be tempted to downscale my work level on SAC
stuff if there was someone paid who could take the work though I'd like to
think I'd be applying that time in other aspects of OSGeo.

Best regards.
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