[Board] Supporting OSGeo4W

[Till Adams]

Dear Paolo,

thank you for your email. We've discussed your request on our last
meeting and as already qritten by Jody, there is a drafted OSGeo budget
already. Once it is approved, we will come back to you and explain our
thoughts to you. Also feel free to attend our next board meeting to
bring up your points. I am happy to add your request to the agenda.

Till

- on behalf of the OSGeo board -

Am 16.01.20 um 16:43 schrieb Paolo Cavallini:
> 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.