Congrats for the change over and thanks much for all that you did to make this happen. Great email.
Michael Michael Barton School of Human Evolution &Social Change School of Complex Adaptive System Science Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity Arizona State University ...Sent from my iPad > On Sep 3, 2021, at 6:02 AM, Moritz Lennert <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > As has been discussed in the past, we have now an active Open Collective > account which can be used to receive donations. This means that we can stop > using the PayPal Money Pool linked to my personal PayPal account. > > Our fiscal host on Open Collective is OSGeo. Thanks to Michael Smith, the > OSGeo treasurer, for his support. > > Below is a first draft of an email I suggest to send to -announce and other > mailing lists. As you can see, we highlight a particular company donation > that we received at the beginning of the summer (but we were waiting with the > announcement until the Open Collective system was in place). > > Please let me know if you have any remarks or suggestions concerning this > email. > > Moritz > > > ***********Announcement mail to be sent******************** > > Subject: GRASS GIS moves to Open Collective for collecting donations and > thanks its many financial contributors > > In order to make money donations easier, the GRASS GIS project has decided to > use the Open Collective platform with the Open Source Geospatial (OSGeo) > Foundation as its fiscal host: > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://opencollective.com/grass__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!NqQHkHoBCHwvdlGdw1dc45XON-KoTAdeBAUCnNAYoNz9r1kqVDv8gFH6doLN4zXhgVI$ > . You can donate money via credit card, PayPal, or bank transfer (US account > - for EU account please contact us). This new platform replaces our old > PayPal Money Pool. > > Although most of the work on GRASS GIS happens on a voluntary basis (or > donated by organizations and companies in the form of working time of their > staff), money donations are very important for the development of GRASS GIS > as they allow us to organize face-to-face coding sessions (sprints), finance > infrastucture needs (web site, etc) and sometimes pay developers to work on > important but tedious bug fixes. The new platform should allow both > individuals and companies or organizations to contribute to the GRASS GIS > budget. > > We would also like to take the opportunity to thank those who have already > contributed money in the last years. You can see a complete list of sponsors > on > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sponsors__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!NqQHkHoBCHwvdlGdw1dc45XON-KoTAdeBAUCnNAYoNz9r1kqVDv8gFH6doLN_z60ISQ$ > . Whatever the amount your help is deeply appreciated ! > > As an example of a company support we wish to highlight the very generous > donation recently received from Bohannan Huston, Inc. > (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bhinc.com/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!NqQHkHoBCHwvdlGdw1dc45XON-KoTAdeBAUCnNAYoNz9r1kqVDv8gFH6doLN4dxyMHo$ > ). We asked Robert S. Dzur, Vice President Spatial Data, to explain their > motivation behind supporting the project. Here is what he has to say: > > "Our use of GRASS GIS is primarily related to areas of data inventory, > visualization, quality assessment and analysis. As data producers, we are > regularly confronted with production challenges related to ingesting and > visualizing high data volumes of imagery, elevation / point cloud and feature > data. GRASS GIS gives us the ability to quickly handle large datasets at any > point in the production stage. For example, we use r.in.lidar and its > capacity to read large multi-billion point datasets from a text list and > create derivative elevation data products often to support both quality > assurance tasks as well as base maps for vector feature data development. > GRASS GIS's multiplatform (Windows, Mac, Linux) support and integration with > GDAL/OGR is also a plus for us. GRASS GIS gives us direct control, access, > and the ability to interact with our data at very granular levels. My > colleague, Dennis Sandin also reminded me that one of the greatest benefits > of GRASS GIS is that its environments gives us a plethora of options for > manipulating data and testing/designing our automation/workflow processes. We > also appreciate the GRASS GIS legacy and its long history of development > dating back to its genesis with the US Army Corps of Engineers and the > continued scientific foundations of its applications. > > Over the past few years, we have been making a concerted effort on two fronts > to 1) support the geospatial open-source community and 2) reduce our > dependence on commercial software. Typically, our support had been through > sponsoring the broader community through code sprint events. Last year, > however, with code sprints on-hold we decided to contribute to the QGIS > crowdfunding campaign for point cloud functionality. At the same time, we > attempted to make a corresponding reduction in our commercial licensing > contracts. This year we have also been trying to reach out to some of our > key clients and teach team how to use GRASS GIS on their own computing > infrastructure. Specifically, we engaged with one client to teach them how > to use r.in.pdal to develop elevation range maps from LiDAR point cloud data > as a complementary data element in their NDVI analysis to identify vegetation > canopy. Another client was interested in merging DEM data of differing > source lineage and quality and we conducted a basic how to session on GRASS > GIS with them and shared details about r.patch and r.patch.smooth. Given > those recent technical exchange efforts locally with some of our clients, our > experience with GRASS GIS, and our objective to support a specific > open-source project, this year we decided to contribute to the GRASS GIS > project. > > If there are companies or organizations like us who are not already using > GRASS GIS to improve their workflows, they should be." > > Convinced you want to support GRASS GIS financially ? Go to > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://opencollective.com/grass__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!NqQHkHoBCHwvdlGdw1dc45XON-KoTAdeBAUCnNAYoNz9r1kqVDv8gFH6doLN4zXhgVI$ > ! > > The GRASS GIS development team > ~ > _______________________________________________ > grass-psc mailing list > [email protected] > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!NqQHkHoBCHwvdlGdw1dc45XON-KoTAdeBAUCnNAYoNz9r1kqVDv8gFH6doLN1LVzDe4$ > _______________________________________________ grass-psc mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc
