Hi Ian,
Is there a link to a web page that discusses this and provides a point
to donate at?
Not yet. We are still in the process of completing our application with
NumFOCUS. Eventually there will be a page on their website dedicated to
the GDAL project with instructions how to donate, and the GDAL website
will point to that. We considered waiting for that to be ready before
this announcement, but keeping all those discussions private began to be
against the spirit of how we operate. We'll also setup an email alias so
that new sponsors can contact us with questions & pledges.
==> PSC: should we ask for a gdal-spons...@osgeo.org email alias ? Who
want to be in it ? I'd suggest we open it to Chris Holmes too who could
potentially be interested to help on the sponsoring side (pending his
confirmation)
Even
Ian
On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 14:33, Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com
<mailto:even.roua...@spatialys.com>> wrote:
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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