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

[Dave McIlhagga]

+ 1 as well -- great idea.

Dave


On 3-Nov-07, at 7:12 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:

> +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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>> Tyler Mitchell
>> Executive Director
>> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
>> tmitchell at osgeo.org
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