[Dutch] Fwd: Become a sponsor of GRASS Community Sprint 2013

[Just van den Broecke]

Beste Mensen,

Zie onder. Als je GRASS een warm hart toedraagt kun je sponsor worden 
van de 'GRASS Community Sprint'.

Ik stuur dit ook door ter illustratie van crowdfunding vanuit Open 
Source communities. Dit kan t.b.v. reguliere ontwikkeling zijn zoals 
recent OpenLayers v3 http://www.indiegogo.com/ol3 (teller staat nu meen 
ik > 300K$), of een cool project op basis Open Data zoals SplashMaps: 
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1521486951/splashmaps.

Iets om aan te denken, als je een plan hebt en fondsen wil verwerven 
en/of wil bijdragen aan iets dat je graag ontwikkeld zou willen zien.

groeten,

Just


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Become a sponsor of GRASS Community Sprint 2013
Resent-Date: 	Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:01:53 +0100
Resent-From: 	<info op opengeogroep.nl>
Resent-To: 	<just op justobjects.nl>
Date: 	Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:01:34 +0100
From: 	Margherita Di Leo <dileomargherita op gmail.com>
To: 	Undisclosed recipient <dileomargherita op gmail.com>
CC: 	Luca Delucchi <lucadeluge op gmail.com>



The GRASS GIS team will organize a GRASS Developer and Power User
Meeting, aka 'GRASS Community Sprint' from 2-7 Feb, 2013 [1]. The
Community Sprint is a get-together for members and supporters of GRASS
and related OSGeo projects to make decisions and tackle larger problems.
For this meeting, we welcome people committed to improving the GRASS GIS
project and the interfaces to QGIS, GDAL, PostGIS, R statistics,
Sextante, gvSIG, OGC Services (esp. WPS) and more. This includes
developers, documenters, bug reporters, translators and others.

The outcomes of past editions include wxGUI bugfixing, GRASS 7 time
series and 4D data management, translations, implementation of new
modules and lots of bughunting, testing, and bugfixing. For
interoperability, the new QGIS-Sextante-GRASS interface was completely
overhauled and updated. Developers also had discussions on broad topics
like GRASS GIS usage on mobile devices, creation of a visual guide to
GRASS GIS usage and much more. See [2,3] for details.

The third GRASS Community Sprint is a great occasion for you to support
the development of GRASS. With your contribution you will enable more
developers to meet. The Community Sprint is an important opportunity for
the GRASS developers to discuss and collaboratively resolve bugs, plan
the direction for the project and work on new features. Developers and
contributors are donating their valuable time, so it would be great if
in-kind funding can be made available from within the community to cover
out-of-pocket expenses.
All of the work that takes place at the community sprint will be
directly contributed back into the GRASS project to the benefit of
everyone who uses it. It is also possible to (symbolically) sponsor
specific tasks in which you may be interested in.

This year the Italian OSGeo Local Chapter (GFOSS.it [4]) is in charge of
gathering all the donations. Donations should be addressed to:

"Associazione Italiana per l'Informazione Geografica Libera"

Details of bank account:

IBAN: IT32J0335901600100000015079
BIC: BCITITMX
BANCA PROSSIMA S.P.A. Via Verdi Ang. Via Manzoni - 20121 Milano

Any further question about donations should be addressed to Luca
Delucchi <lucadeluge at gmail.com <http://gmail.com>>

On behalf of the GRASS Community I would like to thank you in advance
and to wish you happy new year.

Best regards

Margherita Di Leo
for the GRASS PSC

[1] http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Genova_2013
[2] http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2012
[3] http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Community_Sprint_Prague_2011
[4] http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/