<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 9:47 AM Michal Migurski, <<a href="mailto:mike@teczno.com" target="_blank">mike@teczno.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">OSM is seeing good progress on this initiative in 2020 with board decision to fund a full-time senior SRE role via large donations. All of my organizational homes over the years have wanted to fund OSM, but could rarely figure out how to do it because the Foundation of recent years has been run like a garden party.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hi Mike,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regarding this point, I'm genuinely curious: how is <a href="https://donate.openstreetmap.org/">https://donate.openstreetmap.org/</a> not a good way for companies or organizations to fund OSM? Do companies/organizations want more information or certainty on how funds are going to be spent (such as the several hardware fundraising drives that OSM did in the past, or sponsoring SotM, or the SRE position now), or are they looking for a more structured way for funding (such as the Corporate Membership scheme)?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Eugene</div><div><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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