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 <gcpp.kal...@gmail.com> 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 <nyall.daw...@gmail.com> > <nyall.daw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 at 06:24, David Strip <g...@stripfamily.net> > <g...@stripfamily.net> 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 > listgdal-dev@lists.osgeo.orghttps://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > > > > -- > Angelos Tzotsos, PhD > President > Open Source Geospatial Foundationhttp://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >
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