[GRASS-PSC] Fwd: [Board] GitHub sponsors

[Markus Neteler]

Hi PSC,

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 3:10 PM Moritz Lennert
<mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
> On 25/05/20 15:02, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> > On 25/05/20 11:12, Markus Neteler wrote:
> >> Hi PSC,
> >>
> >> Potentially interesting for us as well! Any opinions?
> >
> > Looks good after a rapid look.
> >
> > I don't understand whether the limitation to some regions [1] concerns
> > the organisations receiving the sponsoring, or the people who sponsor.
> > We did receive some donations from outside that list.

I have no idea...

BTW, there is a parallel discussion in the board list:
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2020-May/thread.html#12678

OSGeo applied as an organization and is now in the waiting list.

> > The advantage would be to really make this into a GRASS sponsorship
> > account, instead of going through a money pool linked to my personal
> > PayPal account as currently.

Yes, that would be definitely a good idea.

Markus


> > Moritz
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/sponsors#countries
>
> Hmmh, just read some more here [2] where it says:
>
> "Anyone with a GitHub account can sponsor anyone with a sponsored
> developer profile or sponsored organization profile through a recurring
> monthly payment."
>
> So, that means that only people on github can sponsor ? And that
> sponsorship necessarily means a "recurring monthly payment" ? If any of
> those two are true, then I think this would be a possible complement to,
> not a replacement of our current PayPal money pool.
>
> Moritz
>
>
> [2]
> https://help.github.com/en/github/supporting-the-open-source-community-with-github-sponsors/about-github-sponsors