[OSGeo-Discuss] Are there proposed ways to raise funds for OSGeo projects?
Have there been any discussions about ways of raising funds for projects under the OSGeo umbrella? For instance, annual fund raising campaigns like Wikipedia does? Or letters/emails asking for donations to known significant users as associations sometimes do? Or using sites specialized in linking users requests to developers? I suppose this is to be done by each project individually... What are the current opinions? Regards, Duarte ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Are there proposed ways to raise funds for OSGeo projects?
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Duarte Carreira dcarre...@edia.pt wrote: Have there been any discussions about ways of raising funds for projects under the OSGeo umbrella? For instance, annual fund raising campaigns like Wikipedia does? Or letters/emails asking for donations to known “significant” users as associations sometimes do? Or using sites specialized in linking users requests to developers? I suppose this is to be done by each project individually… A relevant group are the institutional sponsors (companies, agencies and so on). To better address the small donations I once started http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Microdonations which is based on ideas from Paolo Cavallini. Recently it has been picked up again. Several OSGeo projects have their own donation page (see above WIki page) but for sure more could be done. Markus -- http://gis.cri.fmach.it/neteler/ http://grass.osgeo.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Are there proposed ways to raise funds for OSGeo projects?
Il 03/06/2011 13:40, Markus Neteler ha scritto: A relevant group are the institutional sponsors (companies, agencies and so on). To better address the small donations I once started http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Microdonations which is based on ideas from Paolo Cavallini. Recently it has been picked up again. Several OSGeo projects have their own donation page (see above WIki page) but for sure more could be done. Yes; it would be great to have a joint effort (we all have limited time to deal with these issues); a few years ago I asked OSGeo, but the foundation did not seem interested in this (and taking 25% from donations did not make it an attractive option, honestly). I would be interested in exploting any option. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Are there proposed ways to raise funds for OSGeo projects?
There are discussions; but they also feature how to raise funds for the foundation to keep the doors open and the lights on etc... Fundraising ideas are always welcome however. Jody On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Duarte Carreira dcarre...@edia.pt wrote: Have there been any discussions about ways of raising funds for projects under the OSGeo umbrella? For instance, annual fund raising campaigns like Wikipedia does? Or letters/emails asking for donations to known “significant” users as associations sometimes do? Or using sites specialized in linking users requests to developers? I suppose this is to be done by each project individually… What are the current opinions? Regards, Duarte ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Help Collecting 2010 Annual Reports for the OSGeo Journal
Thanks Jody. I will check the main wiki page and will update my tables using the information found there. I look forward to getting the report from the Geotools Team. Landon On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Jody Garnett jody.garn...@gmail.com wrote: Jody wrote: The OSGeo projects each have a project officer; this is the official point of contact for the board - and for other committees and osgeo activities such as the annual reports. Thanks for letting me know. I wasn't aware of this. Do you know where I find the list of project officers? Does the same thing apply to sponsors and local chapters, or is this just for software projects? This is just for official projects; part of the graduation process is nominating a project officer to facilitate communication etc. I presume each committee has a chair you could contact in a similar capacity? The people listed on the wiki page are already working on the journal team and have some relationship with the chapter or software project. The tables on the wiki page were intended to help the journal team keep track of things related to the annual report, not to sow widespread confusion among the other parts of OSGeo. No worries. I'd like some help to figure out if I'm missing a software project, sponsor, or local chapter from my list. Sorry for the miss understanding. If there is another place to get that information, then I apologize for pestering. My understanding is the main page of the wiki is good: - http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Main_Page It includes a link to the software projects (and the officer for each project): - http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Steering_Committees Please keep in mind that it is a major project to track down annual report information from all our moving parts. I agree - a massive effort to try and track people down (thank you for the hard work). Jody PS. I will see that the issue is raised in the GeoTools issue tracker and send you the link. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] NOTICE: Server Maintenance Today
All, Some OSGeo services will be down briefly (about 30 minutes) today starting at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20110603T1330p1=217am=30 These include Trac, Svn, Wiki, Foss4g, and OSGeo Live websites. Also logins to other various services will be down during the time period. The public part of various Project websites should still be up during the time window. I apologize for the inconvenience, we are just taking a few minutes to do some important upgrades to the systems to help ensure future service quality. Thanks, Alex OSGeo Systems Administration Committee ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Last call for new projects wishing to be included on OSGeo-Live
This is a last call for any new projects who would like to be included on this year's OSGeo-Live DVD [1], which will be handed out at FOSS4G 2011. If you wish to see your project included, then we will need to hear from you before the end of next week, Friday 10 June. In particular, send us an email as per: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply So far, we have approved the following new applications to join OSGeo-Live: mapproxy geomoose I'm hopeful that we will see an application from: thredds ncwms With the release, we also offering to publish Project Overviews from OSGeo Libraries if a volunteer steps up to write them: FDO GeoTools GEOS MetaCRS (GDAL, OSSIM and PostGIS are already included) [1] http://live.osgeo.org -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Director Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
