[Qgis-psc] [Fwd: Re: [Qgis-user] list of donors]

[Otto Dassau]

Hi, 

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:01:07 +0100
"Hugentobler  Marco" <marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I agree with Tim in that only direct financial donations should be listed.
> Otherwise, the list would be endless. E.g. in my case, the technical
> university of Switzerland would also need to be mentioned.
>
> QGIS is not an all volunteer project anymore and also many power-users that
> spend time with testing, filling bugs, translation, adding documentation,
> doing education about QGIS, etc. are employed by companies or governemental
> agencies (and do these activities in their working time).

I agree with Marco. On the donors list, only financial donations should be
listed. I added a "financial" to the donors.html webpage to make that clear.

@Paolo: can you please check the donors again because the City of Uster is on
the new donors list. They should be removed, if they haven't payed. 

Apart from that I also think, we should find a way to thank and honor all the
people and companies who spend their "human resources" or pay a developer as
well - but how :(. We could do it similar to GDAL again. On Frank's sponsoring
page, below the gold, silver, ... sponsors he also added a list of "Persons" and
"Corporate":

e.g.:

Persons:

- Tisham Dhar: preparing the initial msys (MS Windows) build environment ...
- William Kyngesburye: MAC OSX Installation ...
...

Corporate:

- City of Uster: Co-Sponsored the Print Composer and the Postgis-Loader
- Kanton Soluthurn: Co-Sponsored the Print Composer 
...

would that be a solution?

 Otto


> Regards,
> Marco
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: qgis-psc-bounces at lists.osgeo.org im Auftrag von Paolo Cavallini
> Gesendet: Do 18.12.2008 08:26
> An: qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org
> Betreff: [Qgis-psc] [Fwd: Re: [Qgis-user] list of donors]
>  
> I elaborate on this:
> - the City of Uster contributed greatly to the development of qgis, AFAIK
> - they did so not by donating money, but by putting significant dev
> resources
> - therefore, they are not on the donors list
> - they asked to be included
> - Tim suggested to treat differently financial contributions and human
> resources.
> So, what should we reply to Andreas?
> All the best.
> pc
> ===================================
> Better add it to the SPONSORS list?
> pc
> 
> -------- Messaggio Originale  --------
> Hi Paolo,
> 
> my employer "City of Uster" (Zurich, Switzerland) sponsored the Print
> Composer (together with the Kanton Soluthurn) and the Postgis-Loader
> tool. We will also continue to sponsor further QGIS-development. Please
> add "City of Uster" to the Sponsors list. The contact Email is
> andreas.neumann at stadt-uster.ch
> 
> Email of Kanton of Solothurn: Horst Düster <Horst.Duester at bd.so.ch>
> 
> Please do not publish the emails publically because of Spam.
> 
> Thanks and best wishes,
> Andreas