A.W. Mellon Foundation funding

[Tyler Mitchell]

Hi all,
At OSCON, staff from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation talked to  
volunteers at the OSGeo booth.  They indicated that that we could  
apply for research funding.  Their program [1] and criteria [2] could  
easily fit with one of our projects - in particular, the education  
and geodata projects.  But likely also in software projects that  
could be, for example, adapted into more of an educational context.   
That is based on my assumptions reading their documents.

I will try to get more information from someone who was at OSCON and  
met the foundation reps (I was already corresponding with one of  
them).  But in the meantime, I want to pass it over to the  
fundraising committee to consider.

Is this something you can or likely will pursue?

Tyler

[1] http://rit.mellon.org/
[2] http://rit.mellon.org/criteria