[Gdal-dev] Motion: Funding for TShirts and Bug Squash

[Howard Butler]

+1.

On Aug 29, 2007, at 2:38 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Motion: To authorize Frank Warmerdam to spend up to $650USD on  
> purchasing
> 50 "Team GDAL" tshirts, and to authorize Frank Warmerdam to spend  
> up to
> $350 on food and refreshments for "GDAL FOSS4G Bug Squash" event.
>
> --
>
> I would like use sponsorship funds to support our bug squash with  
> food and
> refreshments.
>
> I'd also like to use some of it to purchase T-shirts for  
> participants in
> the bug squash, and to give to other developers, supporters, opinion
> leaders and cronies.  I'll send another email with more detailed  
> thoughts
> on the shirts.
>
> I think of both as "high leverage" uses of the funds to support fun
> community type stuff around GDAL/OGR.
>
> By my computations this expenditure fits in our budget.  By the way,
> we have (contrary to my incorrect "from memory" estimate on  
> mapserver-dev)
> collected $29500 in sponsorship so far, giving us $22125 to spend - a
> modest portion of which has been spent on the first development
> contract with Matuesz (final invoice not yet in).
>
> Best regards,
> -- 
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