Dear PSC, back to a long term issue... (with solution):
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Markus Neteler <[email protected]> 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? As we had positive feedback in this list, we have set up the Paypal button along with the kind help of the GFOSS association: http://grass.osgeo.org/donation.php The page isn't linked yet on the site, as the wording may need further fine tuning (please help!). For inspiration, see [1]. Looking forward to many micro-donations, Markus [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html _______________________________________________ grass-psc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc
