[Board] Supporting OSGeo4W

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

We have not heard back from SAC. Has this been discussed in one of their 
meetings?

Best,
Angelos

On 2/16/20 3:39 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> Dear Paolo,
>
> Sorry for the delayed reply, I wanted to have the previous meeting 
> minutes in place.
>
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2020-01-27#Discuss_request_from_osgeo4w_for_yearly_budget 
>
>
> As we discussed, we will wait for feedback from SAC meeting before 
> making any decision.
>
> Best regards,
> Angelos
>
> On 2/8/20 11:44 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>> Dear OSGEO Board,
>> following the discussions in OSGeo and QGIS.ORG boards, I'm herewith
>> suggesting to budget a long term support for OSGeo4W, in order to give
>> good prospects for its long term maintenance of this crucial piece of
>> infrastructure. A reasonable amount can be estimated, but I guess it
>> will be in the order of 10.000 €.
>> All best wishes.
>>
>> Il 16/01/20 16:43, Paolo Cavallini ha scritto:
>>> Dear OSGEO Board
>>>
>>> We are writing to petition your help both financially and for general
>>> support with the OSGEO4W project. Over the years, OSGEO4W (started by
>>> Frank Warmerdam and Jürgen Fischer) has become the de-facto delivery
>>> mechanism to Windows users for many of the projects that make up 
>>> OSGEO -
>>> including GDAL, PROJ, GRASS, QGIS and many more.
>>>
>>> Currently, most of the maintenance and improvements to OSGEO4W are
>>> carried out through activities of the QGIS packaging process (our
>>> windows standalone packages are based on OSGEO4W). This includes 
>>> using a
>>> portion of the income donated to QGIS.org each year to support the
>>> OSGEO4W project.
>>>
>>> Since OSGEO4W plays such a central role in the OSGEO landscape we would
>>> like to ask you to 'adopt' the OSGEO4W project financially and also 
>>> help
>>> with marshalling more contributors to the project so that it is not a
>>> 'one man show' - which represents a vulnerability to the long term
>>> prospects of this project. You can see these sentiments reflected in 
>>> the
>>> budget request for supporting OSGEO4W in the OSGEO budget call. This
>>> budget request represents 50% of the anticipated budget for funded
>>> OSGEO4W work for 2020, with the remainder being funded by QGIS.org for
>>> the interim.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> The QGIS team.
>>>
>
>


-- 
Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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