[Board] Re: Work from home, make money fast, etc, etc

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

I would propose this be linked to a "Supporters" page - one that  
would also list companies/individuals that have given small financial  
donations as well.

Tyler

On 2-Nov-07, at 9:32 AM, Howard Butler wrote:

> I would like to see the GeoConnexion, Google Summer of Code, and  
> other in-kind donors like this be given credit on the donors  
> webpage (or some special moderately insignificant webpage) somehow .
>
> Howard
>
> On Nov 2, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
>
>> That works out nicely - thanks for taking the initiative and  
>> giving us an update.
>>
>> On 2-Nov-07, at 8:56 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
>>
>>> Tyler (and board, just fyi):
>>>
>>> I just recently found out that the authors of our monthly column in
>>> GeoConnexions magazine are entitled to a EU$150 "honorarium", and  
>>> their
>>> new editor has agreed to make this retroactive for all the  
>>> columns we've
>>> done so far.  And, furthermore, all but one of the authors has  
>>> agreed to
>>> just donate the money to OSGeo (I have not yet heard back from  
>>> one of
>>> them).
>>>
>>> I've given your email address to Roger Longhorn, GeoConnexions  
>>> editor,
>>> so he can arrange for payment.
>>>
>>>
>>> If my math is right, this means the foundation should be getting at
>>> least 6 * 150 = 900 euros (US$1300).  Not too bad at all.  Almost up
>>> "associate sponsor level", at a rate of 12 columns/year and assuming
>>> everyone in future also agrees to donate their payments.  Might  
>>> even be
>>> worth a press release, although maybe competing media outlets would
>>> decline to run it :-)
>>>
>>> -mpg
>>
>> Tyler Mitchell
>> Executive Director
>> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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Tyler Mitchell
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Open Source Geospatial Foundation
tmitchell at osgeo.org
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