<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Andreas,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Andreas Neumann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net" target="_blank">a.neumann@carto.net</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
I am getting an increasing number of requests for targeted financial contributions and wonder if it is ok to handle them.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">On our website <a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sponsorship/sponsorship.html">http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sponsorship/sponsorship.html</a>, we currently state quite clearly:</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">"</div>We regret that we cannot accept ‘earmarked’ funding as it creates many administrative issues. If you are interested in funding specific aspects of QGIS development, we encourage you to allocate additional human resources to the project, e.g. hiring a developer, or participating to our bug fixing initiative.<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">"</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">Has our position on this changed? Do we have the resources to handle all the administrative issues related to targeted donations or earmarked funding - however we want to call it?</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">Best wishes,</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">Anita</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div></div><br></div></div></div>