[Qgis-community-team] Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS 1.0 Branched - please read to prepare for 1.0.0 release!

[Paolo Cavallini]

Tim Sutton ha scritto:

> Personally I dont know how many people are going to drop 27k in our laps
> - maybe we should just leave the numbers as they are and see what
> happens though...

The (only?) good thing of the 27/9/3 schema is that it follows the OSGeo
pattern, so we do not put QGIS on a lower leve than other projects.
I do not think it'll be a problem not filling up a Platinum position. We
can always change the levels for next year, especially if in accordance
with other OSGeo projects.

> One of the important goals of sponsorship is that we can generate funds
> to do the 'unsexy' parts of the QGIS project like documentation, design
> and discussion of architecture, fund travel for meetings etc etc  -
> things that companies typically wouldn't fund for their own purposes.
> With this in mind I think it probably makes sense to regard these
> contributions as 'donations' rather than sponsorship as per the
> definitions I laid out in my original email - i.e. a once off 'in kind'
> contribution to the project.

Sounds reasonable to me.

>> - do we have an active PayPal account to link to the page?
> 
> As far as I know not.

So what can we do for this? I would avoid setting up a new one, and we
have the problem of which account the money should go to. Any ideas?
All the best.
pc
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