[gdal-dev] Sustainable GDAL initiative and fundraising

Thu Apr 15 08:08:17 PDT 2021

Frank,

I'm not aware of anyone having started writing new RFCs. I believe the 
NumFocus relationship is the most urgent topic, to be effectively in a 
position to accept donations, already pledged or new ones. There's a 
document with the proposed answers to the application form at 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bc5jdpCe1axdyBHxbJnun7e0DTyDoZI_eFYgJYnOhB8/edit 
and we'd ideally send it soon. I'm willing to initiate that RFC.

The way the sponsorship program operates has indeed to be defined. RFC9 
can serve as a basis. We'd need to extend it to who can apply for 
sponsorship and how. In our past informal exchanges, I had drafted a few 
ideas about that. I'd appreciate if someone else want to take the lead 
on that.

Even

Le 15/04/2021 à 16:08, Frank Warmerdam a écrit :
> 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 
> <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 
> <mailto: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 <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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