Hey Ben/Pieter, I was about to say maybe OKFN can help us. We really should sell cool merchandise @ SOTM 2016, that is a golden opportunity imho.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Merchandise And park all the proceedings with OKFN for OSM.be use and be transparant on where the money goes. I (company) would not mind sponsoring this server in fact in exchange for some small PR in the form of attribution. aka: 'Uptimed by xxx' Glenn On 21-04-16 15:09, Pieter-Jan Pauwels wrote: > Hi Ben, > > I’m always up to brainstorm about finding funding. I think financial or > non-financial sponsorships always help Eg. Combell who provides hosting? > It is that way we handle such things as well for Open Knowledge Belgium. > > Kind regards, > Pieter-Jan > > Community Coordinator > Open Knowledge Belgium > m: +32 476 66 27 77 a: Sint-Salvatorstraat 18/101, 9000 Gent > s: www.openknowledge.be > <http://www.openknowledge.be/> e: pieter...@openknowledge.be > <mailto:pieter...@openknowledge.be> > > > > >> On 21 Apr 2016, at 13:54, Ben Abelshausen <ben.abelshau...@gmail.com >> <mailto:ben.abelshau...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I also think we should start working on getting some basic funding for >> OSM.be <http://osm.be>. I'm still paying for website, meetup and one >> server every month, it's not much but we should be able to get this >> funded somehow. If we can have some basic funding we can also make >> other things happen like t-shirts, fyers, and so on. Maybe the >> exposure with something like this mapathon and/or SOTM in september >> can help. >> >> Anyone up for brainstorming/helping with this? >> >> Met vriendelijke groeten, >> Best regards, >> >> Ben Abelshausen >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-be mailing list >> Talk-be@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Talk-be@openstreetmap.org> >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
