[Board] Supporting OSGeo4W

[Angelos Tzotsos]

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
Charter Member
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos