On Tuesday 03 March 2009, Markus Neteler wrote: > PSC, > (cc President of GFOSS.it) > > during the last Italian GFOSS/GRASS meeting (last week) we discussed again > to add a "donate to GRASS" button (via Paypal) to > http://www.gfoss.it > > (also site of the Italian OSGeo chapter). > > Given the fact that OSGeo is not interested in small donations (in my > opinion OSGeo errs here ignoring the potential community donations, > see for an old proposal: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Microdonations > and remember how Wikipedia and OSM get money), I suggest to activate > the button. > > The money is obviously hold in trust by GFOSS.it for the GRASS project. > We could, once some money is accumulated, co-finance bug-squashing > meetings, hack-sessings, promotional material or even invent our > own "GRASS winter/spring/... of code" with a competition for the best > proposals. > GFOSS.it already does the same for the QGIS project. > > When operative, we can clone the button on the GRASS main > Web site, too. > > Any objections to proceed? > > Markus
None. I think that this is a great idea. +1 from me. I think that small donations allow interested individuals to contribute small sums when they have it on hand. Thanks for looking into this. Dylan > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Markus Neteler <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Frank Warmerdam <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Markus Neteler wrote: > >> > While we are at it: do we have guidelines how to set up a new > >> > sponsorship program? I want to launch one for GRASS now given > >> > that we no longer use the IRST server as primary infrastructure. > >> > > >> > I see > >> > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Sponsorship > >> > but that doesn't address our needs. We want to collect small > >> > money donations first which aren't under level regulations. > >> > Think "donate button". > >> > >> Markus, > >> > >> We have no program for this, and the sponsorship program was explicitly > >> established to handle larger amounts because of a concern that small > >> amounts would prove to be a hassle to manage properly. > >> > >> Perhaps the finance committee could consider mechanisms for handling > >> project directed small donations efficiently. > > > > At this point we could set up our own mechanism (for now). > > E.g. the German GRASS Association (a legal entity) could > > handle the money on a trust basis in a managed account - they > > do it already for the FOSSGIS.de series of conferences. > > > > Of course we need consulations in the PSC and 8if so) with > > the German GRASS Association first. > > > > I just wanted to explore the current situation. > > > > thanks, > > Markus > > _______________________________________________ > grass-psc mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ grass-psc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc
