<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My rationale for adding that phrase (precluding targeted donations) was </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">a) mainly do to administrative overhead and </div><div class="">b) also due to a concern that it would create contractual expectations - the donor will expect something specific to happen in return for their donation. I think specific tasks are better dealt with in direct relationships between donors and developers, and we as the project can point donors to suitably skilled devs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That said, I think if Andreas feels ok to manage (a) and we create general enough ‘buckets’ of funding (documentation, bug fixing, hack tests or whatever) then (b) should not become an issue.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim</div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 22 Dec 2015, at 20:18, Paolo Cavallini <<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it" class="">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Il 22/12/2015 17:58, Andreas Neumann ha scritto:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Maybe we need to discuss this in our next board meeting.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">+1<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">In my opinion it would be foolish to reject all this potential funding.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">sure, we must not reject - just find the most efficient and way of<br class="">dealing with this, making all our community happy.<br class=""><br class="">thanks for raising this, Andreas.<br class="">-- <br class="">Paolo Cavallini - <a href="http://www.faunalia.eu" class="">www.faunalia.eu</a><br class="">QGIS & PostGIS courses: <a href="http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html" class="">http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html</a><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Qgis-psc mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><div class=""><span><img height="60" width="60" apple-inline="yes" id="A022386B-E4E6-424B-AB3B-52D3AAD6D92D" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:DDEF9B12-67C3-4498-BD7D-EC3563CC35A4" class=""></span><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Tim Sutton<br class="">QGIS Project Steering Committee Member<br class=""><a href="mailto:tim@qgis.org" class="">tim@qgis.org</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>