One quick thought on finances that I haven't seen presented in this thread.
We've identified that organisations are willing to fund new features - frequently since the new feature aligns with some business opportunity for them. What if the hourly/daily rates for new features included a "Maintenance tax" - maybe 20%? This would go into the pot to fund maintenance. The benefits of this are: - new donors (& donation paths) do not have to be found - new features incur a cost more indicative of through-life costs Just a thought. Ian On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 at 09:35, Paul Harwood <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just a quick question. > > Since the FAANGs were the question, do you know if OSGeo has been vetted and > approved as a Foundation by any of the FAANGs? > > As I say, when I was involved on the other side for one, they had more than a > 2 year lead time for that process (I don't know if that was universal or if > they solved that problem). If the answer is yes, then that could be a way > forward - and indeed in at least two of FAANGs that I know the employees have > virtual "pots" of both money and time that they can donate to approved > organisations to "give back" - so appealing to the grass roots could be a way > forward. > > You might have to spin it as "promoting the value of Geo software to solve > world problems" or some such - since as I say paying for free software is > questionable legal territory. > > On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 at 09:00, Angelos Tzotsos <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Perhaps we could ask some of these organizations to sponsor GDAL through >> https://github.com/sponsors/OSGeo which is a recurring sponsorship ? >> >> Angelos >> >> _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
