<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 15 Nov 2015, at 17:32, Anita Graser <<a href="mailto:anitagraser@gmx.at" class="">anitagraser@gmx.at</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Paolo Cavallini <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it" target="_blank" class="">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br class="">
during the HF we decided it would be important to estimate how much of<br class="">
the work necessary to keep the current structure in place is done thanks<br class="">
to volunteer work. I've therefoe asked, but most people seems<br class="">
uninterested in providing even rough data for this.<br class="">
Therefore I think we have either to leave without, or try a different<br class="">
approach to estimate it.<br class="">
Opinions welcome.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Paolo,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Maybe we have to ask people directly. For example, I would find it interesting to know how much effort it is to just keep our infrastructure running (maintenance, updates). </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">We could also ask some core devs how much time they spend on PRs.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Maybe the initial request was too open ended …</div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Yes I agree - I think it might be easier to make a questionnaire with specific questions like:</div><div><br class=""></div><div>On average how many hours do you spend a week on QGIS activities that are not paid for by your employer or clients:</div><div><br class=""></div><div>0 - 2 hours</div><div>2 - 4 hours</div><div>4 - 8 hours</div><div>1 - 2 days</div><div>2 - 5 days</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div>On average how many hours do you spend a week on QGIS activities that ARE paid for by your employer or clients:</div><div><br class=""></div><div>0 - 2 hours</div><div>2 - 4 hours</div><div>4 - 8 hours</div><div>1 - 2 days</div><div>2 - 5 days</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">etc...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div>And yes we could slice the groupings up in some other way if you prefer... We might want to also separate core activities versus building contributed stuff.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Tim</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Best wishes,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Anita</div><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
All the best.<br class="">
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