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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The Research Software Maintenance Fund might be an option. Unfortunately, the call for submissions for this year has just closed. It is worth remembering
for you, or any other plugin developers, for next time, though.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">John<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer-bounces@lists.osgeo.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>C Hamilton via QGIS-Developer<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 25 July 2025 14:47<br>
<b>To:</b> qgis-developer <qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org>; qgis-user <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [QGIS-Developer] How to get funding for maintaining these plugins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Folks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I retired from government service last year primarily because they completely dropped open source GIS in favor of ESRI and I was close enough to retirement so I did. We are approaching QGIS 4 and Qt 6 and these plugins will need to be updated.
Does anyone know how I could get funding to maintain the plugins? Here is the list of my plugins:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/user/hamiltoncj/">https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/user/hamiltoncj/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Lat Lon Tools<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Shape Tools<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">KML Tools<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Search Layers<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Density Analysis<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Date / Time Tools<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Earth, Sun, Moon and Planets<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">MGRS Tools<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Co-Traveler<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">D3 Data Visualization<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Lock Zoom To Tile Scale<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">POI Exporter<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Calvin<o:p></o:p></p>
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