[QGIS-Developer] Call for Grant Proposals 2025

[Anita Graser]

Hi Nyall,

I wanted to get back to you regarding your proposed changes to the grant 
programme process. The changes make sense for me.

Is 1 week enough for contributor voting & discussion summary writing?

Would you start a dedicated QEP for updating the grant programme process?

Regards,

Anita


On 2025-02-23 23:13, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> Hi Anita, PSC!
>
> > Our previous rounds of grant proposals have been a great success. We are
> > very pleased to announce that this year’s round of grants is now
> > available. The call is open to anybody who wants to make a funded
> > contribution to QGIS, subject to the call conditions outlined in the
> > application form. The deadline for this round is on Tuesday 2025-03-26.
> >
> > For more details, please read:
> > http://blog.qgis.org/qgis-grants-10-call-for-grant-proposals-2025
>
> Thanks for offering this opportunity once again, and for the hard work 
> you do in making this happen!
>
> I was wondering if we could make a small change to the process for 
> submission going forward. Specifically, now that we're requiring that 
> all QEP proposals go through a formal contributor voting and 
> acceptance process (instead of the old "no comments means implicit 
> acceptance" approach), I think the grant process should also take this 
> into consideration and require that the associated QEPs have been 
> voted on by contributors and accepted BEFORE they get put out to the 
> community voting members for ranking.
>
> Otherwise we could have the awkward situation where a grant is 
> submitted which sounds exciting, the QEP generates a bit of back and 
> forth discussion, the grant wins but then is ultimately deemed 
> technically unacceptable when the actual work is submitted for review.
>
> So my thoughts are that we could tweak the schedule to look like this: 
> (changed bit in bold/italic)
>
> - Call for proposals (4 weeks)
> - QEP discussion period (2 weeks)
> - /QEP moves to the/*/CONTRIBUTOR /*/voting stage. If not approved, 
> then the grant is ineligible and will be withdrawn. /Writing 
> discussion summaries (1 week)
> - */COMMUNITY/ *Voting starts (2 weeks)
> - Publication of results
>
> How does that sound?
>
> Nyall
>
>
>
> >
> > We look forward to seeing all your great ideas for improving QGIS!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Anita
> >
> >
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