[Board] GCI 2017: A big thank you for the hard work!

[Cameron Shorter]

Jody, a blog post would be a good forum for such a "press release".

I can help with reviewing the post, if someone who has been involved in 
GSOC can write a first draft. The post can be relatively short, maybe 
just a couple of paragraphs.

What I think should be covered:

* Google has donated $$$ to OSGeo

* OSGeo is very appreciative for this donation.

** (Optional) What are we going to do with this money. It makes is very 
tangible if we can state specifically what the funding us to be used 
for. Otherwise, we can say something less impactful, such as "It helps 
is cover the core expenses of keeping our foundation running"

* Some mentors have passed on their contribution to OSGeo too

* (Optional) Google has committed $$$ to Open Source as part of GSoC

* (Optional) The split of Google's OSGeo funding went xx%,  to OSGeo xx% 
to Developers, xx% to ...

* This sponsorship is  WIN/WIN/WIN situation:

** Helps the sustainability of Open Source - something that companies 
such as Google depend upon.

** Helps attracts students to become Open Source developers

** Raises the profile of Open Source, which in turn benefits all 
software communities

** Helps fund critical tasks that Open Source projects often have 
challenges getting funded

** ...




On 11/1/18 11:42 am, Jody Garnett wrote:
> We make the occasional blog post, but have rarely gone on to circulate 
> them as a press release (I understand both paid and free services are 
> available). If anyone knows more perhaps it is something we can 
> improve in 2018.
>
> Cameron if you are available to make a blog post it would be a good 
> chance to confirm you can access 
> https://staging.www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/ and make a new entry :)
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 10 January 2018 at 16:34, Cameron Shorter 
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     This sounds very news worthy and deserves a press release.
>
>     1. It is great for developers to discover that some organisations
>     (Google) donate money to Open Source.
>
>     2. We should offer public good will to Google for being such great
>     community citizens. Lets help build the social capital of
>     organisations that help us. Hopefully that will encourage Google
>     to continue supporting us, and might even encourage other
>     organisations to adopt similar strategies.
>
>
>     On 11/1/18 6:12 am, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>     That is good news, I understand some mentors for GSOC also direct
>>     funds towards the foundation.
>>
>>     I wonder if the amount from packet publishing ever shows up?
>>
>>     --
>>     Jody Garnett
>>
>>     On 10 January 2018 at 11:03, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hellik at web.de
>>     <mailto:hellik at web.de>> wrote:
>>
>>         Dear board members,
>>
>>         we would like to inform you that Google transfered some
>>         financal gratitude to all 25 Google Code-in 2017
>>         organizations for the hard work over the past couple of
>>         month. It came as a surprise also for us.
>>
>>         A big thank you to our mentors who are doing really a great job!
>>
>>         OSGeo`s treasurer informed us that he already received it.
>>
>>         Kind regards
>>
>>         Helmut (on behalf of the GCI/GSoC admin team)
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>     Cameron Shorter
>     Technology Demystifier, Learnosity
>     Open Technologies Consultant
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Cameron Shorter
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Open Technologies Consultant

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