Frank,
I'm not aware of anyone having started writing new RFCs. I believe the
NumFocus relationship is the most urgent topic, to be effectively in a
position to accept donations, already pledged or new ones. There's a
document with the proposed answers to the application form at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bc5jdpCe1axdyBHxbJnun7e0DTyDoZI_eFYgJYnOhB8/edit
and we'd ideally send it soon. I'm willing to initiate that RFC.
The way the sponsorship program operates has indeed to be defined. RFC9
can serve as a basis. We'd need to extend it to who can apply for
sponsorship and how. In our past informal exchanges, I had drafted a few
ideas about that. I'd appreciate if someone else want to take the lead
on that.
Even
Le 15/04/2021 à 16:08, Frank Warmerdam a écrit :
PSC Folks,
Has work started on an RFC formalizing the NumFocus relationship, and
the sponsorship program? I'd be interested in helping, though
somewhat less in leading it. It feels like an important step to make
a formal decision via our PSC procedures. Potentially we might want
to do two RFCs, one for the relationship with NumFocus (and perhaps
with the application being tied to the RFC), and one defining the
sponsorship program.
The use of sponsorship money for maintenance may fall under
https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc9_maintainer.html
<https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc9_maintainer.html> or perhaps we
will want to supersede that.
For those interested, there has been extensive informal discussion of
this effort with the PSC and a few other parties already, but no
formal decision making yet.
Best regards,
Frank
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 9:58 AM Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it
<mailto:cavall...@faunalia.it>> wrote:
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 <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.
>
>
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