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

[Michael Barton]

It seems like a useful idea, though I’ve only looked at it quickly and without legal sophistication. 

Michael Barton
School of Human Evolution &Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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> On May 31, 2020, at 7:56 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
> 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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.osgeo.org_pipermail_board_2020-2DMay_thread.html-2312678&d=DwIGaQ&c=l45AxH-kUV29SRQusp9vYR0n1GycN4_2jInuKy6zbqQ&r=lk-7X7CEOMDN8GaGVhiDsuO6gEp1wbG6nfT1XEEEtR0&m=6BesDw1HLXmUiBnK7xfaLzmut1JR4tHDfdlc6YU_yrk&s=gNlYMsm7rHUi5uxbRw9p38U6EeTxV__fMFCTi-jL1d8&e= 
> 
> 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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_sponsors-23countries&d=DwIGaQ&c=l45AxH-kUV29SRQusp9vYR0n1GycN4_2jInuKy6zbqQ&r=lk-7X7CEOMDN8GaGVhiDsuO6gEp1wbG6nfT1XEEEtR0&m=6BesDw1HLXmUiBnK7xfaLzmut1JR4tHDfdlc6YU_yrk&s=IzaQ9W6liJmEz-6OF8OTJnzqOQD9lLbba5OkCgjgu_o&e= 
>> 
>> 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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__help.github.com_en_github_supporting-2Dthe-2Dopen-2Dsource-2Dcommunity-2Dwith-2Dgithub-2Dsponsors_about-2Dgithub-2Dsponsors&d=DwIGaQ&c=l45AxH-kUV29SRQusp9vYR0n1GycN4_2jInuKy6zbqQ&r=lk-7X7CEOMDN8GaGVhiDsuO6gEp1wbG6nfT1XEEEtR0&m=6BesDw1HLXmUiBnK7xfaLzmut1JR4tHDfdlc6YU_yrk&s=8B5WgkdxHD13iKKZPKvKUNbrKRg1swoPWX2FUe8-YNU&e= 
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