On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:05:02PM -0600, Erik Uzureau wrote: > Just fwiw, anyone who would theoretically sponsort OL via OSGEO *is* also > sponsoring > OGSEO, via the 25%. It's a bit different, but still it is helping the > organization.
The funds which OSGeo receives are not -- per the documentation of the program -- designed to support OSGeo directly, but instead to accomodate for the fact that things like maintaining a bank account cost money, and projects themselves also consume resources like hosting, marketing, etc. Put more directly, Funding OpenLayers to the tune of, say, $12k does not get a sponsor the same position within OSGeo as sponsoring OSGeo to the tune of $3k, even though $3k is taken by OSGeo for the general maintenance of the project sponsorship funds: Sponsoring OpenLayers for $12k does *not* make you an Associate Sponsor of OSGeo. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
