[Board] Project Donations

Jeroen Ticheler Jeroen.Ticheler at fao.org
Thu Nov 22 14:12:02 PST 2007


+1 from me. No free pass. If things get out of hand and there's too  
much money that flows to OSGeo general budget (which would be a very  
healthy sing :-) )  we can always consider reducing the percentage as  
a whole at that point. But we're not in that fortunate situation yet  
I think.
Jeroen

On Nov 23, 2007, at 1:23 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>
> Tyler,
>
> I can understand folks wanting all their money going to the specific
> effort they want to fund.  But I'm very nervous about the precident.
>
> I don't think the sponsorship aspect is important one way or the  
> other.

> Frankly, I'd rather just let folks handle it another way (outside  
> OSGeo)
> if they feel they don't want part of the money kept for general  
> OSGeo use.
>
> And if we start giving a free pass to QGIS, I may rethink my  
> willingness
> to have GDAL project funds skimmed (putting it rather crassly).
>



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