Just to be clear IANAL. That is a good start - but if you want money from Big Tech - then you have to go through Due Dilligence individually which each one and as you said with MS - it is painful.
Without that status - it is impossible for any team or manager regardless of how much they agree with you to pay any money. The only other route is a PO with a SOW and even then you still need to go through DD for supplier status. On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 at 11:32, <[email protected]> wrote: > Angelos, > > OSGeo is a US non profit 501(c)(4), not (c)(3). We can receive donations > but they are not tax deductible. > > Michael Smith > OSGeo Treasurer > > > On Jan 20, 2021, at 4:27 AM, Angelos Tzotsos <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > OSGeo is an approved 501(c)(3) organization. > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)_organization#501.28c.29.284.29 > > https://www.osgeo.org/about/ > > > > The only contact for (in kind) sponsorship was with Microsoft, and that > did not move forward because they needed another status (401). > > > > Regards, > > Angelos > > > >> On 1/14/21 11:34 AM, Paul Harwood 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 > >>> > >>> > >>>> On 1/14/21 12:58 AM, Howard Butler wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Jan 13, 2021, at 4:28 PM, Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> < > [email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 at 06:24, David Strip <[email protected]> < > [email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> What is the path forward? One path Howard suggests is establishing a > foundation similar to that behind Qgis. Another alternative, probably far > more controversial, is a license change. > >>> > >>> I'm pretty clueless regarding licenses -- but this is an interesting > >>> thought. I wonder if any new drivers added to GDAL could be done with > >>> a dual-licensing under both GPL + some other license which requires > >>> ongoing sponsorship of the GDAL project? > >>> > >>> License monkey business isn't viable in any way with GDAL. It would > just create confusion and erode trust, which we can't get back if broken. > >>> > >>> The big organizations running 100,000,000s of CPU hours extracting > information from imagery they're reading in COGs with GDAL need to be > donating substantial resources into an organization that provides > coordination. The last time I did a fund raise with gdalbarn.com < > http://gdalbarn.com/> <http://gdalbarn.com/> I was called out for naming > some of these organizations and expressing my disappointment they couldn't > find a way to participate or simply ignored the request. Maybe they will > step forward this time around. > >>> > >>> Whether it is in a new foundation or an existing one like NumFocus, > substantial resources need to be dumped in a pot that are earmarked for > supporting work that generates value for the project. Chasing new feature > work to subsidize project maintenance activities is not sustainable in two > directions – burn out for the maintainer and creeping feature-itis for the > project. > >>> > >>> It's clear what's happened in the past is a combination of luck and > graciousness by both Frank and Even. > >>> > >>> Howard > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> gdal-dev mailing [email protected]:// > lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD > >>> President > >>> Open Source Geospatial Foundationhttp://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> gdal-dev mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > >>> > > > > > > -- > > Angelos Tzotsos, PhD > > President > > Open Source Geospatial Foundation > > http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gdal-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >
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