<div dir="ltr">Dear Regina,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for reminding us. We did discuss this and concluded not to accept in-kind donations, such as hours worked, as sponsorship. It tends to conflict with volunteer work, and with cash sponsorship. Many OSGeo sponsors also contribute significant hours in-kind to OSGeo and its projects without recognition as OSGeo sponsor. They, on top of this in-kind work, provide support in cash to FOSS4G conferences and the foundation in accordance with the sponsorship program.</div><div><br></div><div>We also discussed other forms of recognition for people contributing in other ways, like donating work time. The QGIS project among others has a nice way of doing this, and we will likely propose and adopt a similar formula.</div><div><br></div><div>We highly appreciate your in-kind and paid contributions to OSGeo and hope this can be expressed in other ways (a.o. as described above).</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks and regards,</div><div>Jeroen</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 at 19:17, Regina Obe via Board <<a href="mailto:board@lists.osgeo.org">board@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> The budget has been approved:<br>
> <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2026" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2026</a><br>
> <a href="https://www.loomio.com/p/Lm4qrO2V/motion-to-approve-the-osgeo-" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.loomio.com/p/Lm4qrO2V/motion-to-approve-the-osgeo-</a><br>
> budget-for-2026<br>
> <br>
> Thanks all for your feedback.<br>
> <br>
Any decision made on my suggestion to donate hours to SAC in exchange for being listed as an OSGeo sponsor?<br>
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