[GRASS-PSC] [GRASS-user] Support GRASS GIS financially !

[Moritz Lennert]

Hi Venka,

[Putting the PSC in CC as this is an important question.]

We have a bank account (in €) in a Belgian bank. So bank transfer is another option, but I'm not sure how feasible this is from Asia.

This might be something to raise with OSGeo: creating a worldwide system for collecting sponsorship money that sponsors can dedicate to specific projects. Not sure that the relatively small amounts we collect for GRASS GIS warrant the establishment of such a system only for us.

Best wishes,
Moritz

Am 5. Februar 2021 14:11:04 MEZ schrieb Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>:
>Hi Moritz Lennert,
>
>Thanks for all the great work by the GRASS Team!!
>
>Is there any other way to sponsor apart from using
>PayPal?
>
>Choosing "Pay as Guest" and "Pay by debit card"
>does not list any country in Asia (or any country
>in the southern hemisphere) under "Country or region of residence".
>
>Best
>
>Venka
>
>
>On 2/5/2021 9:38 PM, Moritz Lennert wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> We just received our very first sponsorship contribution of 2021 (thank
>> you !) and we want to take this occasion to thank all those who sponsored us last year and remind you that the GRASS
>> GIS project needs 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 specific fixes or enhancements (this year the use of
>> micro-budgets for such fixes is planned)
>> 
>> - maintain our website
>> 
>> - produce marketing material to spread the word
>> 
>> You can see the list of past individual and corporate sponsors here:
>> 
>> https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sponsors
>> 
>> 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/ 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.
>> 
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