[Qgis-psc] Github sponsorship

[Tim Sutton]

Bear in mind for tax reasons we can't have sponsors....

We have also just wrapped up the updates to support our sustaining members.

Can you ask them to change the name to 'sustaining members' :-P

Regards

Tim

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:16 AM Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> After 4-5 of months discussion with stakeholders in a private repo (I was
> there for QGIS), last month GitHub announced that they now support
> sponsoring for organizations [1].
>
> Today I submitted QGIS.org to the waiting list. as soon as we'll be
> accepted I'll update the sponsoring button (that currently still only
> points to https://qgis.org/funding) to also allow "real" GH donations.
>
> From that moment we'll be able to track how much comes in directly from
> that channel.
>
> please note that Sponsored organizations are not eligible for GitHub
> Sponsors Matching Fund [2] as this is for early-bird individual developers
> that subscribed before 1.1.2020 only.
>
> Ciao
>
> Marco
>
> [1] https://github.blog/2019-11-13-universe-day-one/#sponsors
> [2]
> https://help.github.com/en/github/supporting-the-open-source-community-with-github-sponsors/about-github-sponsors#about-the-github-sponsors-matching-fund
> On 13.08.19 09:26, Anita Graser wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 8:44 AM Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de> wrote:
>
>> The links points to https://qgis.org/funding - so we can't tell whether
>> donations came from there.
>>
>
> Makes sense. Thanks Jürgen!
>
> Anita
>
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