[Board] [EXTERNAL] Re: Project sponsoring

[Jody Garnett]

Tim can we pay the project back that 20%? If you need something done (or
unhappy with how things are going down) your project officer can take up up
with the board....

I am not aware of the history at the time; but I want to ensure the
foundation is setup to be a useful resource for projects. (We set this up
once for projects, I do not want to set it up again for GeoTools,
GeoServer, GDAL etc...)

GVSIG association was created prior to OSGeo graduation (and covers some
ground as an organization that OSGeo does not). QGIS association also has
an interesting structure with user list representation etc... From a
project governance standpoint OSGeo does not mind how decisions are made -
so long as the process is transparent and open to newcomers. The new comers
may have to work for it of course ...
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 1:52 PM Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com>
wrote:

> It's probably a grey area. It's fine when you consider that a code sprint
> is an educational and networking activity. Devs who do some coding do it on
> their own time. All that osgeo provides is a venue and coordination to
> foster cross project collaboration. education of new users and contributors
> to open source methodologies, and networking of domain experts to allow
> them to advance science.
>
> That's my interpretation fwiw :)
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On February 21, 2016 2:43:15 PM Michael Smith
> <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Wouldn't funding code sprints also fall into this category?
> >
> > Michael Smith
> > Remote Sensing/GIS Center
> > US Army Corps of Engineers
> >
> >> On Feb 21, 2016, at 2:38 PM, Daniel Morissette <
> dmorissette at mapgears.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 2016-02-21 2:30 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> >>> Daniel,
> >>>
> >>> It was my understanding that this was prohibited as a 501c3 as we
> would be
> >>> able to receive pre tax funds and using tax exempt funds was the
> issue. As
> >>> a 501c4, this is all post tax money so it shouldn't matter. The IRS
> concern
> >>> was companies spinning off software development to foundations and
> funding
> >>> them with tax exempt money.
> >>
> >> I hope I'm wrong, but that was not my understanding. I'd suggest you
> talk
> >> to either Alan or our attorney or another tax specialist to confirm that
> >> your reasoning is valid before you proceed to re-establish the project
> >> sponsorship program.
> >>
> >> Please note that I just added to the wiki page two more documents from
> our
> >> attorney that discuss this in more details. Those were shared with the
> >> board at the time but that was already a few years ago, an they were not
> >> linked to the wiki page until just now:
> >>
> >>
> https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/board/irs_docs/OSGeo-IRS-attorney-advice-and-suggestions-20121029.pdf
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >>
> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5072628/0/OSGeo-IRS%20advice%20and%20suggestions-2.pdf
> >>
> >> --
> >> Daniel Morissette
> >> http://www.mapgears.com/
> >> T: +1 418-696-5056 #201
> >>
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>
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