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

[Markus Neteler]

+1 for "Supporters" page. Stimulating small donations is also getting
people feel closer/as part of OSGeo.
Could this be (auto)generated from the Paypal DB? Maybe a "consense"
button is needed to let supporters choose if they want to appear there.

Markus

On Nov 3, 2007 3:52 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <tmitchell at osgeo.org> wrote:
> 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
> >> tmitchell at osgeo.org
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> >> M: +1-250-303-1831
> >>
> >>
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