I'm with John on this one, I'd like to kick some funds in too. I wonder if a broader sponsorship drive, where OSGeo Oceania can 'sell' a kind of corporate support to orgs in Australia and pool funds is a good idea?
Let's keep this simple though. From a finance perspective, I can set up something in Tito, perhaps, where we can sell a 'pay what you want' and OSGeo Oceania could match, and we kick over a chunk of change to support GDAl development :-) Cheers, On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 18:46, John Bryant <johnwbry...@gmail.com> wrote: > Great initiative, thanks Dionne! > > I'm totally in support of anything we can do in this region to help make > open source more sustainable. If OSGeo Oceania sets up a matching fund and > helps identify productive ways to spend it (not just on GDAL, but perhaps > on an array of important projects), I would like to contribute. I hope any > business or org in the region that benefits from using open source would > consider contributing. > > The QGIS SIG was initiated to help with the procurement problem you > mention, where many organisations can't make a "donation" but can justify > spending on a "membership". We haven't kicked this off yet, but will soon. > Hopefully there will be some useful lessons learned along the way. > > Cheers > John > > On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 15:11, Dionne Hansen <dionne.han...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello OSGeo Oceania, >> I'm addressing this to the board, the OSGeo oceania members and to the >> wider community. It has come to my attention that a message sent on the >> goal-dev mailing list here: >> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2021-January/053302.html - >> which highlights a problem with burnout among the GDAL maintainers and >> outlines the difficulties of maintaining a tool like GDAL when one is only >> paid for developing new features but not for maintaining the project, >> responding to the mailing list, bug fixing, or new releases. >> >> That message further outlines ways of overcoming the problem of burning >> out the project maintainers. Including getting more people to participate >> and providing a revenue stream so that a maintainer only has to do the >> maintenance job. >> >> Even Rouault (the current maintainer of the project with over 19,838 >> commits) put up a call for sponsorship ( >> https://github.com/sponsors/rouault) for his activities maintaining and >> improving GDAL and PROJ. He is also a developer of QGIS, MapServer, >> libtiff, libgeotiff, and cpenjpeg. >> >> I feel that OSGeo Oceania should be doing our part to help with revenue >> streams to safeguard the maintainer against overloading and burnout. >> >> 1) As a stop gap effort I propose that we donate $500 to Even for >> maintenance purposes. >> >> 2) I think we should discuss if we can help in any other capacity - ie. >> amplify the need to donate money to projects like these, matching donated >> amounts up to a certain limit? >> >> 3) Discuss the barriers that our respective organisations have to >> donating maintenance funds to these projects. Ie. my employer could not >> sponsor via GitHub without breaking procurement rules. Is there anything >> that OSGeo Oceania can do to make maintenance sponsorship easier? >> >> I'd appreciate a discussion about what we can do to help in the near and >> long term and I will set up a loomio thread for the $500. >> >> Thanks, >> Dionne Hansen >> _______________________________________________ >> Oceania-Board mailing list >> oceania-bo...@lists.osgeo.org >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/oceania-board >> > _______________________________________________ > Oceania mailing list > Oceania@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/oceania > -- Alex Leith m: 0419189050
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