[OSGeo-UK] First monthly contributing member

[Sam Franklin]

Hi List. Steven - many thanks. I also figured that if can’t contribute my
time for X lame reason then a monthly micropayment seemed like the least I
could do.

One request. That the OSGeo:UK organisers buy themselves a drink "from the
pot” at their next get together as a thank you for volunteering their time
and really just for putting their names forward to rep our community. It’s
super appreciated.
Hope to see some of you at Rasters Revealed :D
Cheers, Sam


On 9 February 2017 at 16:09, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did you know that you can set up a monthly donation to OSGeo:UK via the
> PayPal Donate link at the bottom of the home page at http://uk.osgeo.org?
>
> Massive thanks and respect to Sam Franklin who is our first ‘supporting
> member’ (we now have to work out what benefits and/or responsibilities a
> supporting member has). Sam told us
>
> *"I had a New Year's Resolution to review my charity/good causes. I've
> been feeling pretty guilty that my company isn't making donations OSGeo due
> to cost reduction measures in place, so wanted to personally do something. **If
> 100 people donate £5/month. That's £500/month revenue. That's not a bad pot
> to do stuff with ... "*
>
> "What will we do with the money?" you may reasonably ask. Well we have
> very small admin expenses and intend to keep things that way as long as we
> can find a volunteer to file our accounts (me for  the moment) so most of
> our surplus from FOSS4GUK and donations from individuals or companies will
> be used to fund community activity (Jo Cook is going to post something on
> future ideas soon).
>
>    - In December we sponsored the QGIS code sprint in Lyon and we also
>    became a silver sponsor of the QGIS organisation.
>    - In February we are sponsoring the Rasters Revealed event
>    https://rastersrevealed.net <https://rastersrevealed.net> on 21/2.
>
>
> We can do more of this if people want to chip in some regular donations
> and we are definitely more effective working together than individually.
>
> So maybe you want to donate a little bit to OSGeo:UK?
> ______
> Steven
>
>
>
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