[Board] GRASS Fiscal Sponsorship

[Vaclav Petras]

Dear OSGeo Board,

I'm writing to you as the Treasurer of the GRASS project. The GRASS project
will now be transitioning to use NumFOCUS as a fiscal sponsor (motions: Nov
2024 and May 2025 <https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/PSC#Motions>). The
short-term goal is to have a lightweight way to create invoices for our
sponsors. In the long-term, we aim to build up a budget to directly
support ongoing maintenance in addition to the OSGeo projects budget
assigned to GRASS which is now mostly used for student grants and sprints.

GRASS will continue to present itself as an OSGeo Project and now also as a
NumFOCUS Fiscally Sponsored Project. I will follow up with Mike Smith later
as we go through onboarding with NumFOCUS. I have previously discussed the
general ideas and GDAL experience with Mike as the OSGeo Treasurer and with
Howard Butler as a GDAL team member.

While not directly related to the fiscal sponsorship, I will add here other
updates from the GRASS project: We aligned our branding with OSGeo
branding, currently renewing, e.g., the OSGeo project flyer, and we are now
using GRASS, not GRASS GIS, as the project name (news item
<https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2025_04_29_grass_branding_update/>).

Best,
Vaclav Petras
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