[SAC] [Board] Supporting OSGeo4W

[Jody Garnett]

I have attended a SAC couple meetings
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:SAC_Meetings>, but do not recall it
on the agenda.
--
Jody Garnett


On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 01:33, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We have not heard back from SAC. Has this been discussed in one of their
> meetings?
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
> On 2/16/20 3:39 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> > Dear Paolo,
> >
> > Sorry for the delayed reply, I wanted to have the previous meeting
> > minutes in place.
> >
> >
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2020-01-27#Discuss_request_from_osgeo4w_for_yearly_budget
> >
> >
> > As we discussed, we will wait for feedback from SAC meeting before
> > making any decision.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Angelos
> >
> > On 2/8/20 11:44 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> >> Dear OSGEO Board,
> >> following the discussions in OSGeo and QGIS.ORG boards, I'm herewith
> >> suggesting to budget a long term support for OSGeo4W, in order to give
> >> good prospects for its long term maintenance of this crucial piece of
> >> infrastructure. A reasonable amount can be estimated, but I guess it
> >> will be in the order of 10.000 €.
> >> All best wishes.
> >>
> >> Il 16/01/20 16:43, Paolo Cavallini ha scritto:
> >>> Dear OSGEO Board
> >>>
> >>> We are writing to petition your help both financially and for general
> >>> support with the OSGEO4W project. Over the years, OSGEO4W (started by
> >>> Frank Warmerdam and Jürgen Fischer) has become the de-facto delivery
> >>> mechanism to Windows users for many of the projects that make up
> >>> OSGEO -
> >>> including GDAL, PROJ, GRASS, QGIS and many more.
> >>>
> >>> Currently, most of the maintenance and improvements to OSGEO4W are
> >>> carried out through activities of the QGIS packaging process (our
> >>> windows standalone packages are based on OSGEO4W). This includes
> >>> using a
> >>> portion of the income donated to QGIS.org each year to support the
> >>> OSGEO4W project.
> >>>
> >>> Since OSGEO4W plays such a central role in the OSGEO landscape we would
> >>> like to ask you to 'adopt' the OSGEO4W project financially and also
> >>> help
> >>> with marshalling more contributors to the project so that it is not a
> >>> 'one man show' - which represents a vulnerability to the long term
> >>> prospects of this project. You can see these sentiments reflected in
> >>> the
> >>> budget request for supporting OSGEO4W in the OSGEO budget call. This
> >>> budget request represents 50% of the anticipated budget for funded
> >>> OSGEO4W work for 2020, with the remainder being funded by QGIS.org for
> >>> the interim.
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>>
> >>> The QGIS team.
> >>>
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
> President
> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>
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