<div dir="ltr"><p>Hi Nyall,</p>
<p>It is always good to get ideas / leads from other OS projects. Thanks for sharing this case.<br></p>
<p>A couple of months ago I approached Google (via Ed Parsons) - but didn't get a reply, unfortunately. I know that Google employees use QGIS a lot.</p>
<p>If anyone has interesting leads (e.g. within Microsoft of Google), let me know.</p>
<p>I will also try to approach the blender project to see if they have any recommendations / suggestions how to approach possible sponsors.</p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Andreas<br></p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 07:14, Nyall Dawson <<a href="mailto:nyall.dawson@gmail.com">nyall.dawson@gmail.com</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 PSC,<br>
<br>
I've been watching with interest the number of large organisations who<br>
have jumped onboard with regular sponsorship for the Blender project<br>
recently.<br>
<br>
They're now up to 100k+ per month (see <a href="https://fund.blender.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fund.blender.org/</a>),<br>
with some massive contributors like Microsoft, Intel, Google, and<br>
Ubuntu (among many others).<br>
<br>
Looking at this list of sponsors, there's a lot there who I suspect<br>
wouldn't directly be benefiting from Blender itself, and are instead<br>
using this as a means of publicly supporting open source instead.<br>
<br>
I'm wondering if there's anything we can model off/copy from Blender's<br>
fund raising approach for QGIS. Possibly we could look through their<br>
list of corporate sponsors and approach some of these for QGIS<br>
sponsorship too (e.g. Microsoft*, Intel,. ..)<br>
<br>
Nyall<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
* I'd be surprised if Microsoft staff weren't already using QGIS<br>
internally to some capacity!!<br>
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