[OSGeo-UK] First monthly contributing member

[Steven Feldman]

Cheers Sam

We do manage to sip the odd glass of beer/cider/whisky when we get together (always in moderation)


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Steven


> On 9 Feb 2017, at 17:32, Sam Franklin <mr.samfranklin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi List. Steven - many thanks. I also figured that if can’t contribute my time for X lame reason then a monthly micropayment seemed like the least I could do.
> 
> One request. That the OSGeo:UK organisers buy themselves a drink "from the pot” at their next get together as a thank you for volunteering their time and really just for putting their names forward to rep our community. It’s super appreciated.
> Hope to see some of you at Rasters Revealed :D
> Cheers, Sam
> 
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> On 9 February 2017 at 16:09, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com <mailto:shfeldman at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Did you know that you can set up a monthly donation to OSGeo:UK via the PayPal Donate link at the bottom of the home page at http://uk.osgeo.org <http://uk.osgeo.org/>?
> 
> Massive thanks and respect to Sam Franklin who is our first ‘supporting member’ (we now have to work out what benefits and/or responsibilities a supporting member has). Sam told us 
> 
> "I had a New Year's Resolution to review my charity/good causes. I've been feeling pretty guilty that my company isn't making donations OSGeo due to cost reduction measures in place, so wanted to personally do something. If 100 people donate £5/month. That's £500/month revenue. That's not a bad pot to do stuff with ... "
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> "What will we do with the money?" you may reasonably ask. Well we have very small admin expenses and intend to keep things that way as long as we can find a volunteer to file our accounts (me for  the moment) so most of our surplus from FOSS4GUK and donations from individuals or companies will be used to fund community activity (Jo Cook is going to post something on future ideas soon).
> In December we sponsored the QGIS code sprint in Lyon and we also became a silver sponsor of the QGIS organisation. 
> In February we are sponsoring the Rasters Revealed event https://rastersrevealed.net <https://rastersrevealed.net/> on 21/2. 
> 
> We can do more of this if people want to chip in some regular donations and we are definitely more effective working together than individually.
> 
> So maybe you want to donate a little bit to OSGeo:UK?
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> Steven
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