[Board] draft sponsorship oppertunities 2018

[Till Adams]

I know, I am only listener here, but would like to see the possibility
to do a "travel grant sponsorship" for students/3rd world community
members/whatever on this list. Would also enable micro-donations...

~silent again~

Till


Am 04.01.2018 um 22:06 schrieb Jody Garnett:
> As referenced in our video chat meeting it is time to do a sponsorship
> opportunities call out for 2018 (and include the UN "capacity
> building" exercises).
>
> - https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Sponsorship_Opportunities_2018
>
> I would like to bounce the above draft off the board list before
> taking it to projects and committees for additions.
>
> For Discussion:
>
> While we have gotten specific donations for OpenLayers I think more
> can be done to enable sponsors to directly fund projects. It may be a
> good idea to ask projects to place a PayPal donate button on their own
> website, in addition to including them in the above call for sponsorship.
>
> We had an open trac <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1882> ticket
> requesting gvSig to be included in the 2017 call for sponsorship which
> was not noticed. The above draft lists gvSig Association and QGIS.org
> under "projects" under the assumption this is a good idea for 2018.
>
> In a similar fashion is it worth listing local chapters?
>
> Finally we had Jeroen's request for a single donate button. We could
> do that and make contributions to events and projects on behalf of
> foundation sponsors; we would have to do something consistent like a
> "supporting" sponsorship for events that does not include an exhibit
> booth. 
>
> For reference from 2017:
> - https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sponsorship_Opportunities_for_2017 (draft)
> - http://www.osgeo.org/node/1755 (blog)
> - http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship (website)
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
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