[OpenLayers-Dev] OSGeo Project Sponsorship

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Sun Nov 16 14:12:11 EST 2008


+1 from me for using OSGeo as funding vehicle, and waiting till their 
tax exempt status is sorted.

Tim Schaub wrote:
> Hey-
>
> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:15:35AM -0500, Schuyler Erle wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 20:09 -0500, Dave McIlhagga wrote:
>>> I would like to move that we request that the OSGeo Foundation serve as
>>> our funding vehicle, in the same fashion that it already serves the GDAL
>>> project. As and when we get willing donors, I recommend that we invite
>>> them to donate to us through OSGeo. If the tax receipt is an issue for a
>>> would-be donor, we should invite them to wait until OSGeo's non-profit
>>> status is finalized before donating. We've made it this far without
>>> explicit sponsorship funding; I think we can wait another few months to
>>> receive funds if necessary.
>>>
>>> Do we need a PSC vote on this? If so I am +1.
>>>       
>> I am +1 as well.
>>     
>
> Yeah, me too +1.
>
>   
>> Regards,
>>     
>
>
>   


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