Fellow PSC members, On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Markus Neteler <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear PSC, > > I would like to lauch some concrete sponsoring for the > GRASS Community Sprint in Prague in May 2011. I am sure > that we could apart from community members also companies > and institutional sponsors to support this and future events. > > So far there only limited donations could be collected but > we never forced that not advertised the idea. An interesting > "addon" is the fact that the GFOSS.it associations *doubles* > donations up to a certain limit. I admit that I was not aware > of this till the recent Italian GRASS-GFOSS conference in > Trento. So, let's use that, too! > > In my opinion the yet low rate of donations is caused by the > lack of concrete targets - why should money be donated... But > now we have a concrete goal, the support of this event. > > Before writing official announcements we should clarify how > support could look like - "upon request" to get the travel to > Prague co-funded or in-kind support by paying lunches or > whatever to the participants? > > Please post your suggestions!
unfortunately no response... In any case I have good news that we obtain some sponsoring via the Italian GFOSS.it organization! We have to define now how to use the money. My suggestion is to co-finance the costs "in situ", like free as in free lunch/social dinner and such. I'll discuss with Martin and others but please do post some suggestions here. Markus -- http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/PSC _______________________________________________ grass-psc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc
