[Qgis-developer] QGIS maptips and HTML-display

[haubourg]

Hi all, 
a point of view , I hope this can help other potential supporters:

 In France, public authorities, which are great GIS users, can't contribute
outside of  a public market. Donation is not possible for us. Sponsorship
can be, but more on communication budgets, that GIS admin can't use in
general.  All we can do for contribution is open a puiblic call for offers,
make notations on price and technical criteria, based on a precise list of
functionnalities we need to developp (or bugs we need to correct). 
Making a public contract is quite long and administrative work. It is long..
very long, so it is not easy to follow QGIS developpement speed.
My organisation is trying to accelerate that process with a global market
with some QGIS contractants, some are contributors. We put money saved in
stopping Proprietary GIS support every year. We give a bonus if an evolution
is OK with the community and is pushed into Trunk or commited Plugins. 

That explains the only way some users have to contribute to QGIS. That's why
I'm pushing some evolutions requests theses days.. we are trying to prepare
the right contracts...


Keep on like this guys, this community is great. 
Régis




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