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<p>Dear Iain,</p>
<p>Yes, QGIS has an entity: QGIS.ORG is the worldwide association of
QGIS users and developers. QGIS.ORG is constituted as a Swiss
‘association’
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/charter.html">https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/charter.html</a>) but
it is not a registered charity.</p>
<p>To help support QGIS, organizations are invited to become
sustaining members of QGIS.ORG. The details of our sustaining
membership program are described in:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sustaining_members/sustaining_members.html">https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sustaining_members/sustaining_members.html</a></p>
<p>You can also see who's already supporting QGIS:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://qgis.org/en/site/about/sustaining_members.html">https://qgis.org/en/site/about/sustaining_members.html</a> <br>
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<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Anita<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15.04.2020 02:13, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Iain@jcis.net.au">Iain@jcis.net.au</a>
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Andreas wrote<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>It was also good to see that 103 out of
1691 respondents represented an organization with >100
users. I expected a lower number in this category and was
quite surprised.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This observation triggered in me a thought
that as the organisation I work for is moving towards formal
use of QGIS throughout its team – we should be donating to the
QGIS project as that would seem to be the ethical thing to do.
The directors would be quite open to the idea. There are some
questions I have.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is QGIS a registered charity? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is there an entity which we can donate to?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What would be a suitable donation?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Most business would write off ESRI products
through their accounting system as some form of tax deduction
as it is a something you can buy. A donation to QGIS by
business would need to be structures in some way to obtain a
similar benefit. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone any experience in this area?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Dr
Iain Stuart<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">JCIS
Consultants <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">P.O.
Box 2397<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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North<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">NSW,
2134<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">(02)
9701 0191<br>
(0413) 380116 (m)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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