Re: Effective ways of getting individuals funded to work on ASF projects

[Martin Desruisseaux]

There is a small but relatively successful funding happening right now. 
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is organizing a code sprint 
conjointly with ASF and another open-source organization (OSGeo) [1]. 
For this code sprint, OGC and OSGeo solicited their sponsors, but ASF 
could not (probably not the ASF way, and also geospatial may be too much 
a niche domain at ASF). The collected money goes to participants [2]. 
This is small (10,000$ a few weeks ago, I do not know the amount today) 
and only for short events, but this is the second year that this event 
happens and if successful enough, it may continue to happen next years. 
The advantage is that OGC takes in charge a lot of the burden of 
organizing those events. I wonder if ASF should participate to the calls 
for sponsors if such code sprints happen again, with some filtering for 
bothering only those who have an interest in the target domain 
(geospatial in this example).

    Martin
[1]https://www.ogc.org/pressroom/pressreleases/4659
[2}https://t.co/zxoN70sKLF