AW: [Qgis-psc] Rolling out 1.0 - a proposal

[Hugentobler Marco]

Hi Tim,

+1

This is a very good suggestion! 
However, even if living costs may be very low in South Africa, you should take more than 1000$ a month. One thing that I cannot understand is that sometimes people think that open source programmers should earn much less than programmers of commercial software. I cannot see any reason for this, from what I have seen, open source programmers are often better qualified. So I'd suggest you take 3000$ a month and work as long as finances permit (even then, you are much underpayed!).  

Regards,
Marco


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Von: qgis-psc-bounces at lists.osgeo.org im Auftrag von Tim Sutton
Gesendet: So 15.06.2008 23:41
An: qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org
Betreff: [Qgis-psc] Rolling out 1.0 - a proposal
 
Hi Folks

As you may know, my wife and I have recently moved back to South
Africa. I find myself now in the position where I have relatively low
expenses and possibility of having some time available. I have a
potential contract lined up for the next six months but in the event
that I can postpone it or that it does not come about, I would like to
make a proposal to the PSC. If the QGIS money box can cover my basic
living expenses (I'm thinking around $1000 a month should do it) I'm
prepared to work full time on QGIS for the next two months in order to
get 1.0 out the door. I was thinking along the lines of working on bug
fixing 3 days a week, application polishing 1 day a week and code
documentation 1 day a week. As I mentioned above, I'm not looking to
make any money on this beyond cover my basic living expenses (rent,
food, bills), and obviously would recuse myself from any voting etc
where I had a self interest in the outcome. I cannot guarantee my
availability for this at the moment since I'm still in discussions
with the people who were looking to contract me, but  if others are
agreeable and circumstances permit, I'd really like the ability to
dedicate some time to help getting QGIS proudly stamped '1.0'.

Regards

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