[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo GitHub Sponsors profile is live

[Jody Garnett]

It is great to see that set up - if I understand correctly sponsoring via
github is "better" than paypal in that it does not take an overhead
percentage.
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Jody Garnett


On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 at 11:31, Victoria Rautenbach <
victoria.rautenbach at gmail.com> wrote:

> News item at,
> https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-github-sponsors-profile-is-live/
>
> OSGeo provides financial, organisational and legal support to the broader
> open source geospatial community, but we rely on our sponsors to enable us
> to do this for the community. Firstly, we would like to thank and
> acknowledge all our current sponsors <https://www.osgeo.org/sponsors/>!
> To make it easier for the larger user community of our projects to support
> and sponsor OSGeo, we decided to join the GitHub sponsorship programme.
>
> GitHub Sponsors
> <https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/supporting-the-open-source-community-with-github-sponsors/about-github-sponsors>
> allows the developer community to financially support the people and
> organizations who design, build, and maintain the open source projects they
> depend on, directly on GitHub. We are still accepting sponsors via
> communication with the treasure or paypal, this is just an added method
> (read more on How to become a sponsor?
> <https://www.osgeo.org/about/how-to-become-a-sponsor/>).
>
> Through the GitHub sponsorship programme, we received our first $10
> USD/month sponsorship within 26 minutes (wow)! So we hope to get more
> sponsors via GitHub that can enable us to provide more resources to our
> projects and invest in our global community.
>
> GitHub Become a sponsor to OSGeo, https://github.com/sponsors/OSGeo
>
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