[Qgis-developer] release of 1.7

[Duarte Carreira]

Paolo, that's very true. And something I feel is related to the problem of mind frames and cultural settings... It has to change somehow... one thing we are missing is the ability to sell QGIS in this manner. And I mean sell in the most commercial aspect. Having a commercial work force, not for licenses but for bugs, quality and overall long term sustainability. Now there's a challenge...

If QGIS would send a letter to known users to raise funds would this be a good/bad/so-so perspective? Or an annual fundraising appeal very much like what Wikipedia does (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA085/en)? Both?

Duarte


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De: Paolo Cavallini [mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it]
Enviada: quarta-feira, 1 de Junho de 2011 10:11
Para: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Assunto: Re: [Qgis-developer] release of 1.7

Il 01/06/2011 10:51, Duarte Carreira ha scritto:

> There are mind frames, and cultural difficulties (besides lack
> of money)... I first need to establish QGIS in the enterprise, and later on
> propose spending money... not the other way around.

Good point - a classic catch-22 situation. Anyway, there are already larger
institutions using QGIS, they just invest globally very little to nothing in crucial
issues like quality control, autotesting, bugfixing.
I encourage everybody in this situation to find one or more additional devs to deal
with these issues.
All the best.

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Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc