Fundraising

This is the wiki for the OSGeo Fundraising Committee (FunCom). Most non-meeting communication is via the fundraising mailing list.

Meetings

• First Meeting
• Second Meeting

Documents

• Foundation Sponsorship proposal.
• Project Sponsorship proposal.
• Budget 2006-2007
• EDRC BAA Proposal - Proposal in support of packaged binary and some other project improvements that are of use to ERDC (US Army Research Centers)

Fundraising Approaches

Sponsorship Programs

This is covered in detail in the Foundation Sponsorship and Project Sponsorship proposals.

Conference

The foundation will operate an annual conference starting in 2007, following up on the FOSS4G conference. Conferences can be money making ventures, but putting on a broad and well attended conference is also seen as one of the primary goals of the foundation for it's community building, and promotional benefits. So current plans are that the foundation should aim for a roughly revenue neutral conference.

Note that the conferences have traditionally solicited conference sponsors, and are expected to continue doing so.

Other

A few other ideas that have been suggested.

• Selling swag like tee-shirts, mugs, etc (now in place at http://cafepress.com/osgeo)
• Selling CDs with pre-built software.
• Charging membership fees (we plan to offer a $50USD "supporting membership").
• Submitting grant applications to other charitable foundations or governments.
• Providing contract development services (care required to avoid competing with supporters, and sticking to our charitable goals) eg. EDRC BAA Proposal