[Board] Supporting OSGeo4W

[Paolo Cavallini]

Thanks Jody. Our request was in fact about having a stable budget, as
implied by an adoption, as it is IOHO a fundamental piece of
infrastructure, that deserve a stable commitment.
Cheers.

Il 16/01/20 17:06, Jody Garnett ha scritto:
> Paolo:
> 
> OSGeo4W is already "adopted" by OSGeo as part of the community project
> program. While the project does not have an independent budget (until it
> goes through incubation) it does have access to funding through
> attending board meetings.
> 
> I think if you look at the draft budget
> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2020> a request has already
> been made on behalf of OSGeo4W, indeed it appears to be funded as a
> joint initiative with QGIS.org.
> --
> Jody Garnett
> 
> 
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 07:43, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it
> <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>> wrote:
> 
>     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.
>     -- 
>     Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu <http://www.faunalia.eu>
>     QGIS.ORG <http://QGIS.ORG> Chair:
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Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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