[GRASS-PSC] Proposed mail: Support GRASS GIS financially !

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Moritz,

As well as Vero's changes, please also change:

    "I want to profit of the occasion to remind you"

    to

    "we want to take this occasion to remind you"


Thanks,

-jeff





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Jeff McKenna
GatewayGeo: MapServer Consulting and Training Services
co-founder of FOSS4G
http://gatewaygeo.com/



On 2021-02-04 9:38 a.m., Huidae Cho wrote:
> Hi Moritz,
> 
> It looks good and I agree with Vero. I just have one more comment. Why 
> don't we add direct links to companies, associations, and institutions? 
> Since the individual list is long, which is great, that single link kind 
> of gave me an impression that it's only for individuals? I just had to 
> scroll down to find other entities, which, I assume, can contribute more 
> significant amounts. It'll also help potential individual sponsors see 
> that GRASS also has received/is receiving corporate sponsorship, and 
> feel the significance of the project.
> 
> Other than that, +1 from me.
> 
> Best,
> Huidae
> 
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 7:42 AM Veronica Andreo <veroandreo at gmail.com 
> <mailto:veroandreo at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Moritz
> 
>     Thanks for this initiative! I really like it!
> 
>     Only minor things:
>     - Since we sign as PSC, then I'd replace "I" at the beginning with "we"
>     - remove the word "some" from points 2 and 4
> 
>     For the rest, I have no objections at all :)
>     +1 from my side
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Vero
> 
>     El jue, 4 feb 2021 a las 13:13, Moritz Lennert
>     (<mlennert at club.worldonline.be
>     <mailto:mlennert at club.worldonline.be>>) escribió:
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>         As we just received our first sponsorship in 2021, I propose to
>         send the
>         following mail to grass-user & grass-dev. Any objections ?
> 
>         Moritz
> 
>         **********************
> 
>         Dear all,
> 
>         We just received our very first sponsorship contribution of 2021
>         (thank
>         you !) and I want to profit of the occasion to remind you that
>         the GRASS
>         GIS project also needs some financial support in order to:
> 
>         - organize very valuable face-to-face meetings and sprints
>         gathering
>         developers and the wider community for a few days to concentrate on
>         improving GRASS GIS
> 
>         - fund some specific fixes or enhancements (this year the use of
>         micro-budgets for such fixes is planned)
> 
>         - maintain our website
> 
>         - produce some marketing material to spread the word
> 
>         You can see the list of past sponsors here:
> 
>         https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sponsors#Individuals_who_have_sponsored_GRASS_GIS
>         <https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sponsors#Individuals_who_have_sponsored_GRASS_GIS>
> 
>         As you can see, no amount is too small: if all GRASS GIS users
>         give just
>         a small amount regularly, we will already have a sizeable budget
>         to work
>         with ! And I challenge you to find software that does all that
>         GRASS GIS
>         does for 5€/$ or 10 €/$ a year ;-)
> 
>         So, just go to https://grass.osgeo.org/contribute/sponsoring/
>         <https://grass.osgeo.org/contribute/sponsoring/> and help
>         us make GRASS GIS better.
> 
>         If you want to see more details about how we use the money, note
>         that
>         the project budgets are public. For 2021 see
>         https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Budget_2021
>         <https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Budget_2021>.
> 
>         The GRASS GIS Project Steering Committee
> 
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> Huidae Cho, Ph.D., GISP, /hidɛ t͡ɕo/, 조희대, 曺喜大
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