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<p>Frank,</p>
<p>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
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bc5jdpCe1axdyBHxbJnun7e0DTyDoZI_eFYgJYnOhB8/edit">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bc5jdpCe1axdyBHxbJnun7e0DTyDoZI_eFYgJYnOhB8/edit</a>
and we'd ideally send it soon. I'm willing to initiate that RFC.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Even<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 15/04/2021 à 16:08, Frank Warmerdam
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<div class="gmail_default">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. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default">The use of sponsorship money for
maintenance may fall under <a
href="https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc9_maintainer.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc9_maintainer.html</a>
or perhaps we will want to supersede that. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default">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.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">Best regards,</div>
<div class="gmail_default">Frank</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 9:58
AM Paolo Cavallini <<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it"
moz-do-not-send="true">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>> wrote:<br>
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0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Great
news, thanks Even!<br>
Long life GDAL.<br>
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Il 15/04/21 15:31, Even Rouault ha scritto:<br>
> All,<br>
> <br>
> I wanted to inform you about an initiative that the PSC
recently<br>
> started, and which is now sufficiently advanced to share
and develop<br>
> further publicly along with the larger GDAL community. As
you all know,<br>
> GDAL is a foundational piece of the open-source and
proprietary<br>
> geospatial software ecosystem. While the project has
successfully<br>
> attracted contributions for adding new features and
capabilities, it<br>
> lacked financial capacity and a vehicle to support
difficult-to-fund<br>
> maintenance and infrastructure.<br>
> <br>
> The PSC recently applied to be fiscally hosted by
NumFOCUS<br>
> (<a href="https://numfocus.org" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://numfocus.org</a>)
to receive donations to provide that vehicle (*).<br>
> I should underline that GDAL is and will continue to
remain a OSGeo<br>
> project for all other concerns.<br>
> <br>
> We approached a first round of potential sponsors and
received<br>
> substantial multi-year pledges, which make us confident
that our minimum<br>
> target, of being able to fund the equivalent of a
full-time senior<br>
> engineer for three years, will eventually be reached.
These resources<br>
> will help fund *several* co-maintainers, enable
increasing the bus<br>
> factor of the project, and address the many tasks (ticket
triaging and<br>
> addressing, CI maintenance, pull request reviews, release
management,<br>
> etc.) needed to make it even better.<br>
> <br>
> The sponsorship funding will be entirely used for
activities that<br>
> benefit the project and its associated dependencies such
as PROJ,<br>
> libgeotiff, and libtiff. The PSC will be developing
procedures and<br>
> details of how the sponsorship resources will be
allocated, and we will<br>
> update the GDAL website with them as they are finalized.<br>
> <br>
> Finally, we would like to thank our initial sponsors, who
have provided<br>
> the project with generous three-year pledges of support:<br>
> - Platinium (50k USD/yr): Microsoft and Planet<br>
> - Gold (25k USD/yr): Esri, Google, Safe Software<br>
> - Silver (10k USD/yr): Koordinates, Sparkgeo, Mapgears<br>
> <br>
> On behalf of the PSC,<br>
> <br>
> Even<br>
> <br>
> (*) NumFocus being a 501(c)3 organization, donations from
US companies<br>
> and persons are tax deductible.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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