[gdal-dev] Sustainable GDAL initiative and fundraising

[Frank Warmerdam]

PSC Folks,

Has work started on an RFC formalizing the NumFocus relationship, and the
sponsorship program?  I'd be interested in helping, though somewhat less in
leading it.  It feels like an important step to make a formal decision via
our PSC procedures.  Potentially we might want to do two RFCs, one for the
relationship with NumFocus (and perhaps with the application being tied to
the RFC), and one defining the sponsorship program.

The use of sponsorship money for maintenance may fall under
https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc9_maintainer.html or perhaps we will
want to supersede that.

For those interested, there has been extensive informal discussion of this
effort with the PSC and a few other parties already, but no formal decision
making yet.

Best regards,
Frank


On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 9:58 AM Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
wrote:

> Great news, thanks Even!
> Long life GDAL.
>
> Il 15/04/21 15:31, Even Rouault ha scritto:
> > All,
> >
> > I wanted to inform you about an initiative that the PSC recently
> > started, and which is now sufficiently advanced to share and develop
> > further publicly along with the larger GDAL community. As you all know,
> > GDAL is a foundational piece of the open-source and proprietary
> > geospatial software ecosystem. While the project has successfully
> > attracted contributions for adding new features and capabilities, it
> > lacked financial capacity and a vehicle to support difficult-to-fund
> > maintenance and infrastructure.
> >
> > The PSC recently applied to be fiscally hosted by NumFOCUS
> > (https://numfocus.org) to receive donations to provide that vehicle (*).
> > I should underline that GDAL is and will continue to remain a OSGeo
> > project for all other concerns.
> >
> > We approached a first round of potential sponsors and received
> > substantial multi-year pledges, which make us confident that our minimum
> > target, of being able to fund the equivalent of a full-time senior
> > engineer for three years, will eventually be reached. These resources
> > will help fund *several* co-maintainers, enable increasing the bus
> > factor of the project, and address the many tasks (ticket triaging and
> > addressing, CI maintenance, pull request reviews, release management,
> > etc.) needed to make it even better.
> >
> > The sponsorship funding will be entirely used for activities that
> > benefit the project and its associated dependencies such as PROJ,
> > libgeotiff, and libtiff. The PSC will be developing procedures and
> > details of how the sponsorship resources will be allocated, and we will
> > update the GDAL website with them as they are finalized.
> >
> > Finally, we would like to thank our initial sponsors, who have provided
> > the project with generous three-year pledges of support:
> > - Platinium (50k USD/yr): Microsoft and Planet
> > - Gold (25k USD/yr): Esri, Google, Safe Software
> > - Silver (10k USD/yr): Koordinates, Sparkgeo, Mapgears
> >
> > On behalf of the PSC,
> >
> > Even
> >
> > (*) NumFocus being a 501(c)3 organization, donations from US companies
> > and persons are tax deductible.
> >
> >
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>
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