[gdal-dev] Motion: Authorize Islandwood Funding for Brian Case

[Howard Butler]

+1 

Howard

On Dec 14, 2011, at 6:32 AM, Tamas Szekeres wrote:

> +1
> 
> Tamas
> 
> 
> 
> 2011/12/14 Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
> Motion: The GDAL PSC authorizes funding up to US$525 to pay entrance fees
> to the Islandwood Code Sprint for Brian Case.
> 
> -----
> 
> Brian (aka winkey) has done lots of work in recent years on and with
> GDAL/OGR.  Most notably he has developed the libkml based OGR KML driver.
> 
> Brian lives relatively near the Islandwood sprint and would arrange to get
> himself there and other ancillary costs.  We would just be paying the
> entrace fees (which also implicitly covers housing and food).  Information
> on the Islandwood Sprint (successor to the Toronto, NYC and Montreal sprints
> of recent years) is available at:
> 
>  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IslandWood_Code_Sprint_2012
> 
> I'm afraid I haven't done a detailed financial review of GDAL/OGR project
> funds but I think we have in excess of $10K in reserve so this is a modest
> expenditure, and I think can serve the community building goals of the project
> well.  I think we should also be open to similar support for other substantial
> contributors to GDAL/OGR who don't have corporate travel support, who would
> like to attend the sprint, and who would be able to get themselves there.
> However, that is not explicitly covered by this motion.
> 
> --
> 
> I'll start with +1 Frank.
> 
> PS. I'd love to make a new batch of GDAL project tshirts in the coming
> year if someone is up to organizing.
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
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