[mapguide-internals] RE: Project Sponsorship

[Paul Spencer]

I'm also in favour of this.  The OpenLayers team has just finished a  
lengthy discussion on sponsorship and has developed some guidelines of  
how the sponsorship stuff will work for them (largely based on the  
GDAL experience and example).  I think we will need to develop a  
similar set of guidelines for sponsorship for MGOS and have the  
community and the PSC discuss it before we can formally go that route,  
but the PSC could vote to agree (or not) on sponsorship in general  
with the details to be decided on later by a second vote.

Paul

On 21-Nov-08, at 5:42 PM, Tom Fukushima wrote:

> I'm in favor of using the OSGEO Project Sponsorship.  What we are  
> doing seems in line with what its intentions.
>
> Tom
>
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> ] On Behalf Of Jason Birch
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> Subject: [mapguide-internals] Project Sponsorship
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>
> Hi all,
>
> The MGOS community will soon be in need of some funding to support the
> hardware/software costs associated with our build/install framework.
>
> While I'm in favour of asking users to just donate to Trevor's PayPal
> account (with regular reports), I think that we also need to look at a
> more formal sponsorship mechanism for larger amounts and for people  
> that
> may want some recognition (and eventually US tax deduction) for their
> contributions.
>
> GDAL is using the OSGeo sponsorship program quite successfully, and I
> believe that we should follow in their footsteps.  Information on this
> program is available here:
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Sponsorship
>
> http://www.gdal.org/sponsorship.html  (not responding for me right  
> now)
>
> Any thoughts?  I'd like to get rolling on this quickly, so maybe a
> couple days for discussion and then a vote?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
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    Paul Spencer
    Chief Technology Officer
    DM Solutions Group Inc
    http://research.dmsolutions.ca/