[SoC] Windup, and Mentor Summit, Mentor Payments

[Sunburned Surveyor]

I was asking about the Mentor payments, so "do nothing" works out just fine.

Landon

On 9/4/07, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
> > So what would we do if we want to donate? How do we make the check out
> > to and where would we send it?
>
> Landon,
>
> Are you speaking of the mentorship payment or just an extra donation for OSGeo?
> The beauty of the mentorship payment is that all we have to do to leave it to
> OSGeo is *nothing*.  It is paid to OSGeo by Google, and we just avoid the
> steps of trying to distribute it to individuals.
>
> If you mean just to give a donation you can contact Tyler Mitchell about making
> one.  But my personal opinion is that we are better off leaving cash
> contributions to the rich and the corporations, and as individuals instead
> focus on contributing time and effort on projects and other OSGeo efforts
> as you and others have done on the SoC effort for instance.
>
> Best regards,
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