[Qgis-psc] Individual Sustaining members

[Ismail Sunni]

>
> It seems interesting that they give lots of focus and options to
> individual contributors to donate periodically. They have values from 5 to
> 250 euros per month for individual. Depending on the donation, it allows to
> put the donor name, and company in the website. Once the subscription ends,
> the names disappear. Instead of having a long donor names from people that
> donated 5 euros 5 years ago (like me).


Doesn't QGIS Github sponsorship already cover it? I saw an option to do it
monthly with a custom or specific amount. Or is it different? Or probably
GitHub is not user-centric (but more developer-centric).

Best regards

On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 6:53 AM Alexandre Neto via QGIS-PSC <
qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hello Alessandro,
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I understand the dangers of allowing companies to
> have a saying on the project progress.
>
> Thanks for all your work.
>
> Alex
>
> On Tue Feb 14, 2023, 04:39 PM GMT, Alessandro Pasotti
> <alessandro at qgis.org> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I forgot to comment on the idea that companies can be voting
> members, we discussed that in the past (and confirmed today) and we are not
> in favor of that.
>
> Also, donations and sponsorships cannot be earmarked (tied to a particular
> activity).
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 10:09 AM Alexandre Neto via QGIS-PSC <
> qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Recently, I found blender funding page:
>>
>> https://fund.blender.org/
>>
>> They have a single page for all funding. (there's no distinction between
>> donations and sustaining members)
>>
>> It seems interesting that they give lots of focus and options to
>> individual contributors to donate periodically. They have values from 5 to
>> 250 euros per month for individual. Depending on the donation, it allows to
>> put the donor name, and company in the website. Once the subscription ends,
>> the names disappear. Instead of having a long donor names from people that
>> donated 5 euros 5 years ago (like me).
>>
>> I think this could be a good way to gather small funds with regularity,
>> obviously it needs an infrastructure behind.
>>
>> For corporates they seem to have a similar approach as us, but some extra
>> benefits. It seems that corporates can have a saying in some of the project
>> decisions and choice the grants. So, corporates could be also voting
>> members, I guess.
>>
>> Maybe you already discussed it, but I wanted to share it anyway, since
>> "we" are doing a website renewal and an active fund raising.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Alexandre Neto
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