[Board] Project sponsoring

[Jody Garnett]

Project sponsorship works, we fixed the tax stuff.

I best make a news announcement.
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 5:26 AM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> Hi board,
>
> I just received an email from a company, as a long time user of GDAL, that
> would have been interested in sponsoring it. They found
> http://gdal.org/sponsorship.html, that is a remain of the time were there
> was
> a sponsorhip program through OSGeo (I should probably remove the page
> completely). As far as I understand, due to the 501(c)(4) status, this is
> no
> longer possible.
>
> So currently they have no direct way of sponsoring GDAL specific
> activities,
> except sponsoring developers directly. Sponsoring OSGeo is of course a way
> of
> indirectly sponsoring OSGeo projects, for example to fund the shared IT
> infrastructure, or code sprints, but this has a more limited impact on
> day-to-
> day maintenance activities led by a project: bug triage & fixing,
> reviewing &
> applying contributions, monitoring and maintenance of coutinuous
> integration
> environments, user assistance on mailing list, release process, ...
>
> I'm not sure if there's a way forward for this. QGIS has for example
> established their qgis.org association for activities that are close to
> the
> past OSGeo project sponsorship. I see there's a GvSIG association too.
> Perhaps
> other projects with similar needs have adopted similar solutions.
>
> I'm not particularly requesting any action from the board. This was just to
> share this experience and see if the board has some thoughts about the
> topic
> in general. For example, if the solution of project-specific associations
> is
> something that the board is happy with or would encourage, or if it is
> indifferent to funding solutions the projects may adopt. Direct funding of
> developers is also a solution, although for most activities I mentioned
> above,
> it can be difficult to get, contrary to funding that is feature oriented.
> And
> even if you get it, formally, it's funding of developer/company X, and not
> of
> project Y.
>
> By the way, I see the GDAL page points to
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Sponsorship : I guess this one is no
> longer
> valid ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Even
>
>
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