<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">And the other thing they do, which I have long been petitioning for in QGIS, is hire a corps of professional, full time, paid staff</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://code.blender.org/2020/07/2020-21-recruitment/">https://code.blender.org/2020/07/2020-21-recruitment/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">It would be great if we could plan for a similar approach given the huge impact it could have on QGIS and taking us to the next level.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Tim<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 8:20 AM Raymond Nijssen <<a href="mailto:r.nijssen@terglobo.nl">r.nijssen@terglobo.nl</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">While organizing the hackfest in 's-Hertogenbosch I was looking for <br>
sponsors. My goal was getting the entire hf costs covered by (Dutch) <br>
sponsors. It worked out pretty well. I think while talking with the <br>
companies, at first most don't feel like spending money on Qgis. It's <br>
the main reason for using it (I guess). But usually after some minutes <br>
they started understanding that supporting the development makes sense.<br>
<br>
Also, having the hf in The Netherlands made it feel closer to them, <br>
compared to the download button on some international website.<br>
<br>
I'd be happy to help finding those larger and long term sponsors. They <br>
are not in my network (yet) but if I bump into them I will see what's <br>
possible. I would say you need to meet the people using QGIS anyway.<br>
<br>
There's a super nice interview with Blender founder Ton Roosendaal on <br>
youtube. Quite a long watch but I really enjoyed all of it. The story <br>
has many parallels to QGIS:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJEWOTZnFeg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJEWOTZnFeg</a><br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
Raymond<br>
<br>
<br>
On 25-08-2020 08:03, Andreas Neumann wrote:<br>
> Hi Nyall,<br>
> <br>
> It is always good to get ideas / leads from other OS projects. Thanks <br>
> for sharing this case.<br>
> <br>
> A couple of months ago I approached Google (via Ed Parsons) - but didn't <br>
> get a reply, unfortunately. I know that Google employees use QGIS a lot.<br>
> <br>
> If anyone has interesting leads (e.g. within Microsoft of Google), let <br>
> me know.<br>
> <br>
> I will also try to approach the blender project to see if they have any <br>
> recommendations / suggestions how to approach possible sponsors.<br>
> <br>
> Thanks,<br>
> <br>
> Andreas<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 07:14, Nyall Dawson <<a href="mailto:nyall.dawson@gmail.com" target="_blank">nyall.dawson@gmail.com</a> <br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:nyall.dawson@gmail.com" target="_blank">nyall.dawson@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> 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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