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<p>On 2016-02-05 11:40, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><br /><br /> The work could already have been started. Ok, it already started - but it's<br /> not continuing for some reason and it's not clear to me why.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">I know a handful QGIS core developers who are waiting for a plan from PSC about 3.0.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><br />I guess it's about funding behind the scenes - but apparently that's not being<br /> discussed openly.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">There is no "funding behind the scenes" - at least I know nothing</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">The only funding initiative there is around QGIS 3.0 is the PyQGIS updates initiative from Matthias - which will be a sponsoring project from QGIS-CH. QGIS-CH funds each year two smaller projects with 5k CHF each. This year we had 4 proposals of which the members voted on - until today. Matthias project with the PYQGIS updater received most votes so far.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">So 99% QGIS-CH will "partially" fund this project. Since the whole project is a bit more expensive than what QGIS-CH pays for, we hope that QGIS.ORG will approve to pay the rest - or some other external funder.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">The other funding QGIS-CH will do in 2016 is 10k CHF dedicated sponsoring for bug fixing.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">This is all I know of. Without any plan from PSC or proposals from devs (like Matthias did), there will be not other funding around 3.0</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Andreas</div>
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