Just going to reply to this one:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">>  <span style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:14.666667px;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">And while it’s nice that all these University students are creating QGIS plugins, to Laurențiu point, I’m not sure they should be encourage to add it to the QGIS registry as most likely those plugins will be abandoned.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:14.666667px;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:14.666667px;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">What an amazing thing to do in a course! Finally teach open source practice, rather than just use :)</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:14.666667px;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:14.666667px;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">The thrill and empowerment people get when actually manage to thank them in release announcement ( even just for testing). Time and time again I find people at a foss4g who really benefited, or their employer could see the value of the work they did, etc…</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:14.666667px;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:14.666667px;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">Rant mode on :)</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:14.666667px;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:14.666667px;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">I am so tired of osgeo board making 1 sided memorandum of understandings with professional bodies and academic institutions. Sure you could promote foss4g software; validate it as a legit way  to GIS - not. Don’t show me the money show me your people! Do your people even have permission to contribute to open source? Really? A clear contribution policy or do they have to ask on a case by case basis etc…</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:14.666667px;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:14.666667px;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">Rant mode off </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:14.666667px;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:14.666667px;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">Download is an arrow, foss4g has to be a circle.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:14.666667px;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:-apple-system,"helvetica neue";font-size:14.666667px;word-spacing:1px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">Jody </span></div>