[Qgis-developer] Funding projects

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

> On 06 Oct 2016, at 10:26 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> 
> 
> One more thing we have been discussing is to include a link to that info
> directly in the QGIS interface, for an easier discovery by the hundreds
> of thousands users that never visit our blogs, ML, etc.
> Of course we should find the right balance between visibility and
> unobtrusiveness.

Given how effective our post-download pop up is on the web site, I think that using our first open page to 'speak' to our users is definitely something to resurrect. It would be great to provide:

* a list of recent projects (as we have now)
* a list of recent blog articles from planet.qgis.org
* a list of current crowd funding projects and their funding progress
* a panel for us to directly send notifications to users e.g. 'QGIS 2.14.7 is out, please upgrade!'
* links for funding and sponsoring QGIS

I think it is also worth speaking to Nyall about his crowd funding experiences - last I chatted to him he had some doubts as to whether it is a really effective tool at the moment. Perhaps getting the publicity on the app opening view might fix that....

Regards

Tim




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