[Qgis-user] Open attribute table in form view by default

[Chris Berens]

If there was a simple template to fill in, which calculated the relative
cost of the FOSS presence in one's organisation over time that might be
useful to motivate for a development budget.  Free has little value to
those who don't use the tools directly.

Chris Berens, GISc
www.mapland.co.za
+27 (0)82 567 9322

On 9 February 2016 at 09:01, Neumann, Andreas <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I also think that a list of potential ways to support the QGIS project
> (both with time/voluntary work or financial) would be useful, with updates
> from time to time.
>
> Stefan, thanks for clarifying that NINA is a private organization. And
> yes, crowd funding is also a good way to support new features, esp. for
> larger efforts or feature wishes one cannot finance from within a single
> organization.
>
> One idea with the goal of minimizing bureaucracy when trying to fund
> smaller features from time to time is to buy an hourly pool (say 25, 50 or
> 100 hours) at the QGIS developer/supporter of your choice. I did that at my
> previous employer and could then flexibly use this hourly pool to get
> either support or trigger smaller fixes and developments.
>
> Andreas
>
> On 2016-02-08 23:01, Blumentrath, Stefan wrote:
>
> Hi again,
>
> Indeed, for us enterprise users a nice collection/overview of reasons for
> working with and paying for FOSS (including a howto) could be really
> helpful when discussing with decision makers.
>
> I remember Paolo had a post in that direction:
> https://faunaliagis.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/6-reasons-to-pay-for-open-source-software/
>
> A critical point might also be that it can be simply more easy, to use
> money on proprietary software. You have probably only one local dealer, you
> get a price and you know more or less what you get for your money. Once you
> made your decision on a software, sat aside your annual license fees and
> accepted that this has to be payed, things go more or less automatically...
> With the legal entity, QGIS is maybe on a good way there. I could also
> imagine, that the grouping the many feature requests into (crowd) fundable
> packages might be helpful. In some cases the gentle push from a starting
> crowd funding activity (or when it is about to end) can be enough to make
> people to use some money...
>
> Cheers
> Stefan
>
> Good point. I keep meaning to write this up properly at some stage as a
> blog post, so keep the suggestions coming. I think it'd be useful to have
> all > this stuff outlined and explained so that people can make informed
> decisions about the best way to get their requests fulfilled.
>
> Nyall
>
>
>
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