Great news, thanks Even! Long life GDAL. Il 15/04/21 15:31, Even Rouault ha scritto: > All, > > I wanted to inform you about an initiative that the PSC recently > started, and which is now sufficiently advanced to share and develop > further publicly along with the larger GDAL community. As you all know, > GDAL is a foundational piece of the open-source and proprietary > geospatial software ecosystem. While the project has successfully > attracted contributions for adding new features and capabilities, it > lacked financial capacity and a vehicle to support difficult-to-fund > maintenance and infrastructure. > > The PSC recently applied to be fiscally hosted by NumFOCUS > (https://numfocus.org) to receive donations to provide that vehicle (*). > I should underline that GDAL is and will continue to remain a OSGeo > project for all other concerns. > > We approached a first round of potential sponsors and received > substantial multi-year pledges, which make us confident that our minimum > target, of being able to fund the equivalent of a full-time senior > engineer for three years, will eventually be reached. These resources > will help fund *several* co-maintainers, enable increasing the bus > factor of the project, and address the many tasks (ticket triaging and > addressing, CI maintenance, pull request reviews, release management, > etc.) needed to make it even better. > > The sponsorship funding will be entirely used for activities that > benefit the project and its associated dependencies such as PROJ, > libgeotiff, and libtiff. The PSC will be developing procedures and > details of how the sponsorship resources will be allocated, and we will > update the GDAL website with them as they are finalized. > > Finally, we would like to thank our initial sponsors, who have provided > the project with generous three-year pledges of support: > - Platinium (50k USD/yr): Microsoft and Planet > - Gold (25k USD/yr): Esri, Google, Safe Software > - Silver (10k USD/yr): Koordinates, Sparkgeo, Mapgears > > On behalf of the PSC, > > Even > > (*) NumFocus being a 501(c)3 organization, donations from US companies > and persons are tax deductible. > > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >
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