[postgis-users] [postgis-devel] Vote On Project Sponsorship

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 09/09/11 11:45, Paragon Corporation wrote:

> So does this mean a +1 from you and Mark for project sponsorship
>
> as long as we focus whatever fundings come in to
>
> 1) Improved testing, building infrastructure
> 2) That includes possible cloud hosting for windows 32/64 bit (actually all
> we need is 1 64-bit box).  I'm runnning a 64-bit Windows 7 and build fine
> for 32-bit.  This would be shared with OSGEO (per Frank's suggestion)
>
> 3) Money for events -- code sprints, subsidizing for PostGIS developers to
> attend events, like those Europeans we are so fund of
> that we are going to miss at this year's FOSS4G.  Hmm possibly in the future
> a small PostGIS code sprint would be nice  :)
>
> 4) One other thing I forgot to mention I think money could be well spent on
> is the accredation to get our newer versions of
> PostGIS to be OGC certified.  This I think is a big selling point for large
> companies and much easier sell for consultants
> consulting for large companies if we have a piece
> of paper saying it instead of just that we follow the specs.
>
> Thanks,
> Regina

I do think that if we initially set a narrow scope for what the funds 
could be used for (similar to the above list) then that would be good. 
I'm tempted to vote +1, except for the fact that I know that I would be 
struggling to find any extra time to put into the management side of 
this... maybe a +1 in principle?


ATB,

Mark.

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