[OSGeo-Board] Fund raising

[Daniel Brookshier]

Apache has both a directed donation and a general donation path.

Daniel Brookshier
Community Manager
214-207-6614

On Feb 15, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Gary Lang wrote:

> Parsing the inevitable seems like a tricky thing though. Like a broken
> record, I want to ask: What does Apache do?
>
> Gary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Brookshier [mailto:dbrookshier at collab.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:26 AM
> To: board at board.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Board] Fund raising
>
> In terms of support, monitory donations go to a general fund. Direct
> donations toward specific projects is done through dedicated personnel
> (or some percentage) and equipment. Inevitably there is a flow toward
> projects that best serve the greater community and those projects used
> by both supporters and community.
>
> Daniel Brookshier
> Community Manager
> 214-207-6614
>
> On Feb 15, 2006, at 10:15 AM, Gary Lang wrote:
>
>> It makes total sense to attribute some value to the foundation in  
>> this
>
>> manner.
>>
>> I'd like to get a broad view on what the right amount of "overhead"
>> is,
>> as this was expressed as a key concern by the community. If 1/3 is
>> standard, then great. I have no idea. DanielB - any background you  
>> can
>
>> share?
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:fwarmerdam at gmail.com] On Behalf Of  
>> Frank
>
>> Warmerdam (External)
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:45 AM
>> To: board at board.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Board] Fund raising
>>
>> Arnulf Christl (CCGIS) wrote:
>>>> Thought I'd pass this along. This is a page from OpenOffice for
>>>> donating funds to OpenOffice.
>>>>
>>>> http://contributing.openoffice.org/donate.html
>>>>
>>>> Daniel Brookshier
>>>
>>> I think that we need to address this topic with great care as we are
>>> in a different position than a single project or a set of projects
>>> that have already grown together for some time. For the time being
>>> some OSGeo projects compete for the same customers and in many cases
>>> companies are tied very much to *one* (*their*) software package. We
>>> should give this a good thought before thinking about how to
>>> distribute seomething we don't even yet have.
>>
>> Arnulf,
>>
>> Dealing with this reality was part of the rationale for my concept of
>> foundation sponsors being able to identify one or more projects that
>> they wish to support.  In this situation 2/3 of their sponsorship  
>> goes
>
>> into a fund for the exclusive use of that project, while the  
>> remainder
>
>> is available for general foundation overhead.
>>
>> In this situation, the foundation would not normally direct general
>> foundation money to paying for development of a particular project.
>> Instead general foundation funds would be directed to supporting
>> common project infrastructure, admin and legal support, paying for a
>> community manager or executive director, overall promotional efforts,
>> various kinds of outreach and so forth.
>>
>> This way sponsors can ensure their support is mostly directed to a
>> particular project if they wish, and projects don't need to feel that
>> "their sponsors" money is being wasted on some other quixotic or
>> competing project.
>>
>> Based on this scenario it benefits the foundation to attract projects
>> which are likely to attract sponsorship funds.
>>
>> Note that none of the above precludes projects getting their own
>> funding as they do now.
>>
>> I really like the part on the OpenOffice.org page that says "We
>> strongly prefer that people become contributors."  That is,
>> contributions in kind (programming, documentation, user support,
>> outreach, bug isolation,
>> etc)
>> is often much better than cash donations.  Certainly it is my hope
>> that volunteering will be the main form of individual contribution.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> --
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>> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam,
>> warmerdam at pobox.com
>> light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
>> and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Programmer for
>> Rent
>>
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