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Hi Anita,<br>
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I know about our statement about "earmarked" funding on our website.<br>
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But I think we should rethink this decision - also in the light that
we want to employ someone in the future who will do bug fixing, QA
and some core development necessary for the project.<br>
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Targeted sponsoring for bug fixing should be possible and
unproblematic - as Matthias also said. It also does not generate
administrative problems. It is just marked in the accounting as
"contribution to bug fixing" and will be used as such.<br>
<br>
Things get more complicated for earmarked funding for crowd funding
initiatives - I still think that our organisation should be able to
step in here. Maybe not so much for the bidding process (as we
discussed it before) - but it should be possible to park some
targeted money in our bank account and spend it for a certain
project.<br>
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If people/organisations out there are willing to co-sponsor certain
features in a joint/crowd funded way - QGIS.ORG should provide some
support to coordinate things. Who else should do it?<br>
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Maybe we need to discuss this in our next board meeting.<br>
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In my opinion it would be foolish to reject all this potential
funding.<br>
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Andreas<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22.12.2015 14:30, Anita Graser
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Andreas,</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 10:24 PM,
Andreas Neumann <span dir="ltr"><<a
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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>
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style="font-size:small;display:inline">On our website
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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>
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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>
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<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>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">Best
wishes,</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">Anita</div>
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