It is great to see that set up - if I understand correctly sponsoring via github is "better" than paypal in that it does not take an overhead percentage. -- Jody Garnett
On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 at 11:31, Victoria Rautenbach < victoria.rautenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > News item at, > https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/osgeo-github-sponsors-profile-is-live/ > > OSGeo provides financial, organisational and legal support to the broader > open source geospatial community, but we rely on our sponsors to enable us > to do this for the community. Firstly, we would like to thank and > acknowledge all our current sponsors <https://www.osgeo.org/sponsors/>! > To make it easier for the larger user community of our projects to support > and sponsor OSGeo, we decided to join the GitHub sponsorship programme. > > GitHub Sponsors > <https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/supporting-the-open-source-community-with-github-sponsors/about-github-sponsors> > allows the developer community to financially support the people and > organizations who design, build, and maintain the open source projects they > depend on, directly on GitHub. We are still accepting sponsors via > communication with the treasure or paypal, this is just an added method > (read more on How to become a sponsor? > <https://www.osgeo.org/about/how-to-become-a-sponsor/>). > > Through the GitHub sponsorship programme, we received our first $10 > USD/month sponsorship within 26 minutes (wow)! So we hope to get more > sponsors via GitHub that can enable us to provide more resources to our > projects and invest in our global community. > > GitHub Become a sponsor to OSGeo, https://github.com/sponsors/OSGeo > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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