[OpenLayers-Dev] MOTION: donation button

[Yves Jacolin]

Le jeudi 12 mai 2011 23:00:12, Schuyler Erle a écrit :
> On May 12, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Tim Schaub wrote:
> > I've asked Tyler @OSGeo to set up a PayPal account for OpenLayers - as a
> > way for us to accept "micro-donations" to the project and OSGeo.  We
> > have a larger sponsorship program for people wishing to make more
> > substantial contributions (http://openlayers.org/sponsorship/).  I like
> > the idea of being able to accept smaller financial contributions from
> > those who are able to make them.
> 
> I am pretty much +0, but I have a question: For what purpose are we
> planning to use the donations? I am all for encouraging the community to
> support the project, but I am wondering what kind of support we need.
> 
> SDE_______________________________________________

Hello,

QGIS project have similar donation button and it allows to:
* provide (small) budget for developper (correcting bug)
* allow more dev to go to sprint code.

The last item seems the most interesting for OL project.

Regards,

Y.
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