<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Paolo,<br><br></div>Thanks for your text. It reads well.<br><br></div>One could think about adding a link to the financial report. See <a href="https://www.qgis.org/en/_downloads/PublicQGISfinancialreport2017.pdf">https://www.qgis.org/en/_downloads/PublicQGISfinancialreport2017.pdf</a> - some text along - see how we use the available funds at URL xxx<br><br></div>The suggestion from Saber is something to discuss. The possible deadlines are the feature freezes of QGIS 3.2 and 3.4. Not so sure about recommended amounts?<br><br></div>Thanks,<br></div>Andreas<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 April 2018 at 11:37, Paolo Cavallini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it" target="_blank">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
following the discussion in our latest PSC, I prepared a draft letter to<br>
users and potential donors. I'd greatly appreciate your comments, then<br>
we can spam it around.<br>
All the best.<br>
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Dear QGIS user,<br>
as you know, QGIS 3 has been recently published. This version implied<br>
big changes in the code structure that, in addition to the new<br>
functionalities already exposed, makes our code base more modern and<br>
easier to further expand and improve.<br>
As expected, these changes triggered a series of new issues, that you<br>
the users are helping to discover and document. Our objective is to<br>
eliminate at least the most important of them in time for what will be<br>
our next LTR (3.4, due in October[0]). The resources directly available<br>
from <a href="http://QGIS.ORG" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">QGIS.ORG</a> funds are limited, and we already invested in QGIS 3.0 far<br>
more than we have done for any earlier version.<br>
This would therefore be the right timing for users, and particularly for<br>
power users, larger institutions and enterprises, to invest in QGIS<br>
bugfixing, and we encourage to do it now. You have a number of different<br>
options: donating your developers' time or hiring a developer directly<br>
for the bugs that annoy you most, sponsoring our foundation[2], or<br>
donating[3].<br>
Feel free to contact us for further details if necessary.<br>
<br>
[0]<a href="https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/roadmap.html#release-schedule" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://qgis.org/en/site/<wbr>getinvolved/development/<wbr>roadmap.html#release-schedule</a><br>
[1]<a href="https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sponsorship/sponsorship.html#qgis-sponsorship-program" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://qgis.org/en/site/<wbr>getinvolved/governance/<wbr>sponsorship/sponsorship.html#<wbr>qgis-sponsorship-program</a><br>
[2]<a href="https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sponsorship/sponsorship.html#qgis-sponsorship-program" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://qgis.org/en/site/<wbr>getinvolved/governance/<wbr>sponsorship/sponsorship.html#<wbr>qgis-sponsorship-program</a><br>
[3]<a href="https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/donations.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://qgis.org/en/site/<wbr>getinvolved/donations.html</a><br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br>
Paolo Cavallini - <a href="http://www.faunalia.eu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.faunalia.eu</a><br>
QGIS & PostGIS courses: <a href="http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.faunalia.eu/<wbr>training.html</a><br>
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