[OSGeo-UK] Donations to projects

[Mike Saunt]

Jo

Does the UK chapter OR projects get any financial support from OSGeo - Astun
is a Silver Sponsor for OSGeo
<http://www.osgeo.org/content/sponsorship/sponsors.html> so I wonder if any
filters through

Thanks
Mike

On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 at 09:39 Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com> wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> If you can find a way of allowing us to sponsor GeoServer and/or GeoTools
> then I'm sure we'd be happy to donate to them too- is that something you
> could look at for us?
>
> Jo
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Ian Turton <ijturton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I love the idea of sponsoring software, I'd suggest GeoTools and GeoServer
> too (though obviously I'm biased :-)) - I also expect they fall into the
> hard to give money group. One other option might be to provide support for
> UK developers travelling to OSGeo code sprints.
>
> Ian
>
> On 22 November 2016 at 17:39, Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> A quick update and canvas of opinions on OSGeo:UK donations to software
> projects. We made a healthy surplus after FOSS4G UK, so prompted by
> http://blog.qgis.org/2016/11/19/lets-make-a-big-funding-push-for-qgis-3-0/,
> we'd like to sponsor QGIS, potentially as a silver sponsor (see link for
> details). We're also looking at ways in which we could make a similar
> contribution to PostGIS although that's not as straightforward.
>
> We have further plans to offer bursaries for FOSS4G 2017, but more on that
> when we've firmed up our ideas there. We're also open to the suggestion of
> sponsoring events, and again are firming up our criteria for that.
>
> So basically chaps, what do you think about donations to QGIS and PostGIS?
> Are there any other projects that you'd like to see us contribute to? Ideas
> on and off list welcome. We'll take no response to mean everyone's happy
> with our plans.
>
> Furthermore, I'm happy to announce that we have committed to sponsor
> Rasters Revealed on the 21st February 2017- which looks like a super event.
> See https://rastersrevealed.net/ for more details!
>
> All the best
>
> Jo
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