[Qgis-psc] 2018 grant applications are now closed

Andreas Neumann a.neumann at carto.net
Tue May 22 21:00:23 PDT 2018


Hi Anita, 

I would first do the voting on the grant proposals and then the blog
post about funded/unfunded proposals. 

Are you preparing the voting? 

Greetings, 

Andreas 

On 2018-05-22 09:25, Anita Graser wrote:

> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 8:27 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> 
>> Il 22/05/2018 00:20, Nyall Dawson ha scritto:
>> 
>>> Since they are obviously not all going to be funded by the grant
>>> proposal system, can I suggest that we pro-actively publicise this
>>> list with a call out to external agencies to consider sponsoring the
>>> fixes which do not get grant funding?
>>> 
>>> The recent success of the GDAL barn raising (https://gdalbarn.com/)
>>> means that there's currently momentum and precedent for heavy
>>> commercial sponsorship of open source software. It would be nice to
>>> leverage off that to see if we can get additional funding for these
>>> grant proposals, or alternative additional funding for 3.2 bug fixing!
>> 
>> Good idea, agreed fully. How do you suggest to proceed, besides the
>> usual blog post? BTW, who would be willing to write it?
>> All the best, and thanks.
> 
> ​And do you suggest to start this initiative now or after the voting that determines which proposals QGIS.ORG [5] will fund? 
> 
> Regards, 
> Anita​ 
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