[gdal-dev] Motion: Paid Maintainer Contract with Chaitanya

[Howard Butler]

+1 

Howard

On Jan 14, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Even Rouault wrote:

> +1
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Even
> 
> Frank Warmerdam a écrit :
>> Motion: Frank Warmerdam is authorized to negotiate a paid maintainer
>> contract with Chaitanya Kumar CH for up to $9360 USD at $13USD/hr over
>> six months, and would be acting as supervisor, operating under the terms
>> of RFC 9 (GDAL Paid Maintainer Guidelines).
>> 
>> ---
>> 
>> Folks,
>> 
>> Chaitanya's current paid maintainer contract ended and the end of December
>> and he has invoiced for the hours worked.  Both he and I are interested in
>> his continuing in the role, which has been helpful in resolving a number
>> of issues and moving the project forward.
>> 
>> I have not done a detailed analysis of our financial position as a project,
>> but I am confident we can cover the above amount for the first half of this
>> year.  It may be that Chaitanya will not be able to work the full number of
>> hours proposed (1560) as he has activities with OSGeo India that he is also
>> pursuing, so the above really establishes an upper bound.
>> 
>> In the coming weeks I hope to review our income from sponsorship renewals,
>> and our expenses to see what our financial position is.  Depending on how
>> that goes we might consider looking for another paid maintainer in
>> addition to Chaitanya, but I'll leave that till after the financial review.
>> 
>> Best regards,
> 
> 
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