+1 Howard
On Dec 14, 2011, at 6:32 AM, Tamas Szekeres wrote: > +1 > > Tamas > > > > 2011/12/14 Frank Warmerdam <[email protected]> > Motion: The GDAL PSC authorizes funding up to US$525 to pay entrance fees > to the Islandwood Code Sprint for Brian Case. > > ----- > > Brian (aka winkey) has done lots of work in recent years on and with > GDAL/OGR. Most notably he has developed the libkml based OGR KML driver. > > Brian lives relatively near the Islandwood sprint and would arrange to get > himself there and other ancillary costs. We would just be paying the > entrace fees (which also implicitly covers housing and food). Information > on the Islandwood Sprint (successor to the Toronto, NYC and Montreal sprints > of recent years) is available at: > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IslandWood_Code_Sprint_2012 > > I'm afraid I haven't done a detailed financial review of GDAL/OGR project > funds but I think we have in excess of $10K in reserve so this is a modest > expenditure, and I think can serve the community building goals of the project > well. I think we should also be open to similar support for other substantial > contributors to GDAL/OGR who don't have corporate travel support, who would > like to attend the sprint, and who would be able to get themselves there. > However, that is not explicitly covered by this motion. > > -- > > I'll start with +1 Frank. > > PS. I'd love to make a new batch of GDAL project tshirts in the coming > year if someone is up to organizing. > > Best regards, > -- > ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- > I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [email protected] > light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/warmerda > and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software Developer > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
