On Mar 3, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
PSC,
(cc President of GFOSS.it)
during the last Italian GFOSS/GRASS meeting (last week) we
discussed again
to add a "donate to GRASS" button (via Paypal) to
http://www.gfoss.it
(also site of the Italian OSGeo chapter).
Given the fact that OSGeo is not interested in small donations (in my
opinion OSGeo errs here ignoring the potential community donations,
see for an old proposal: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Microdonations
and remember how Wikipedia and OSM get money),
I think it is a huge mistake too - it is not just Wikipedia but many
other
organizations from moveon.org to Obama, hugely benefited from repeated
small donations.
I suggest to activate
the button.
The money is obviously hold in trust by GFOSS.it for the GRASS
project.
We could, once some money is accumulated, co-finance bug-squashing
meetings, hack-sessings, promotional material or even invent our
own "GRASS winter/spring/... of code" with a competition for the best
proposals.
GFOSS.it already does the same for the QGIS project.
When operative, we can clone the button on the GRASS main
Web site, too.
Any objections to proceed?
I am all for adding the button for small donations.
We just need to make sure that
there is a trusted person designated to manage the money and that the
spending
is completely transparent - best posted on-line. Especially these
days, people want
to know where their money is going, even if it is a small amount,
Helena
Markus
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Markus Neteler
<nete...@osgeo.org> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Frank Warmerdam
<warmer...@pobox.com> wrote:
Markus Neteler wrote:
While we are at it: do we have guidelines how to set up a new
sponsorship program? I want to launch one for GRASS now given
that we no longer use the IRST server as primary infrastructure.
I see
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Sponsorship
but that doesn't address our needs. We want to collect small
money donations first which aren't under level regulations.
Think "donate button".
Markus,
We have no program for this, and the sponsorship program was
explicitly
established to handle larger amounts because of a concern that
small
amounts would prove to be a hassle to manage properly.
Perhaps the finance committee could consider mechanisms for
handling
project directed small donations efficiently.
At this point we could set up our own mechanism (for now).
E.g. the German GRASS Association (a legal entity) could
handle the money on a trust basis in a managed account - they
do it already for the FOSSGIS.de series of conferences.
Of course we need consulations in the PSC and 8if so) with
the German GRASS Association first.
I just wanted to explore the current situation.
thanks,
Markus
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