[Board] SAC Funding and Volunteer work

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Regina,

I am adding this as a topic for today's board meeting.

Best,
Angelos

On 1/25/26 23:09, Regina Obe via Board wrote:
> In thinking about OSGeo's inability to fund SAC work, what disappointed me
> most is not the lack of funding, but that volunteer time is valued at 0
> monetary value.
> That said, here is a thought that would both ease the SAC funding issue and
> provide me some feeling of appreciation and a marketing benefit for my
> consulting.
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> I will donate 80 hrs of my time  which would be a value of 80*$128 = $10240
> in exchange for my company being listed as a Gold sponsor on OSGeo site.
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> https://www.osgeo.org/about/how-to-become-a-sponsor/
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> This time would be spent on the following
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>   1. General support
>   2. General upgrades and major upgrades
>   3. Training osgeo volunteers on Sac work
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> I can invoice for this work as I have done in the past, but put in a credit
> of $10240 so the invoice balance would be 0.
>
> Note I've already been doing a lot of this this year - e.g. email issues,
> DNS stuff, discourse setup, general upgrades to servers.
>
> Does  the Board have issue with this deal?
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> Thanks,
> Regina
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President, Board of Directors
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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