<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>The way I envisage this can help QGIS project:</div><div>1. To run QGIS Grant through Github Sponsor. Applicants will publish their prototype/proposal as a GH repository. QGIS will sponsor the individual to carry out the work (which can be a feature, documentation, infrastructure, etc):</div><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>1.1. For the first year, if I read that correctly, GH will match the contribution of under 5k dollar. So, it will be additional cash for the applicants.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>1.2 Users can also sponsor the applicants directly.</div></blockquote>2. Crowd funding campaigns: QGIS developers run their campaigns through the sponsorship program (not much to do with QGIS org)</div><div>3. QGIS as an organisation joins the sponsorship program. There will be opportunity to run campaigns (similar to Wikimedia) to raise fund for a specific work (e.g. infrastructure, documentation, bug fixing).</div><div><br></div><div>The first year, there is no charges, so maybe there is an opportunity to explore on of the options.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Saber</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 08:52, Paolo Cavallini <<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Vincent,<br>
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On 24/05/19 09:43, Vincent Picavet (ml) wrote:<br>
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> On 24/05/2019 09:25, Paolo Cavallini wrote:<br>
>> Thanks Richard for the analysis. I think it is worth exploring ways to<br>
>> do it properly. I agree that sponsoring individual developers is not the<br>
>> best way for us, but it could be useful nevertheless, taking the fist 4<br>
>> committers.<br>
> <br>
> I tend to disagree here. 4 developers to be paid on behalf of the rest<br>
> of the community really seems unfair. QGIS.org choosing these developers<br>
> put the association in a risky situation.<br>
> Basing this on the amount of commit also is a mistake according to me.<br>
> It is definitely not a good indicator of value, neither amount of work.<br>
> And how do you count ? Which repositories ? How do you include<br>
> documentation, infrastructure, testing, bug triaging ?<br>
> Using the amount of commits as our principal measurement of contribution<br>
> is wrong on many level, as it conveys the message "developers are the<br>
> most valuable persons on a project", which is against our search for<br>
> diversity and the importance of other kind of contributions.<br>
<br>
I do not see a big problem here: these are additional resources, we have<br>
funds to equalize them, compensating other devs fairly with our own<br>
funds matching the ones from GH.<br>
<br>
> Getting involved with GitHub to allow organizations to participate in<br>
> this sponsorship program would be interesting.<br>
<br>
sure, this is the best route. I'm just suggesting to take this<br>
opportunity, and push to go towards organization funding.<br>
Cheers.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Paolo Cavallini - <a href="http://www.faunalia.eu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.faunalia.eu</a><br>
<a href="http://QGIS.ORG" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">QGIS.ORG</a> Chair:<br>
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