From 027312a4c87c6418b29d9fc09b2cc1df7b7d6629 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Regina Obe Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:59:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Put in a section for crowd sourcing campaigns git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@9504 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee --- doc/introduction.xml | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/introduction.xml b/doc/introduction.xml index 1b8645566..f9390fe0b 100644 --- a/doc/introduction.xml +++ b/doc/introduction.xml @@ -262,6 +262,17 @@ Zonar Systems + + + Crowd Funding Campaigns + + + Crowd funding campaigns are cmapaigns we run to get badly wanted features funded. Each pledge chips in a small amount say $100 - $250 each and with enough people/organizations contributing, we have the funds to pay for the work that will help many. If you have an idea for a campaign for a feature you want that you think many others will want, please post to the PostGIS newsgroup your thoughts. + PostGIS 2.0.0 was the first release we tried this strategy. We used PledgeBank and we got two successful campaigns out of it. + postgistopology - 10 plus sponsors each contributed $250 USD to build toTopoGeometry function and beef up topology support in 2.0.0. It happened. + postgis64windows - 20 someodd sponsors each contributed $100 USD to pay for the work needed to work out PostGIS 64-bit on windows issues. It happened. We now have a 64-bit beta release for PostGIS 2.0.0 and a final one planned for release that will be available on PostgreSQL stack builder. + + Important Support Libraries -- 2.40.0