[Qgis-psc] Rolling out 1.0 - a proposal

[Otto Dassau]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:50:40 +0200
"Hugentobler  Marco" <marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch> wrote:

> 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!).  

+1, I agree with Marco - thanks! We should define a "fair" amount that we can in
general offer people who a willing to make it a full time job working for QGIS.
Otherwise we will get problems, if one person only get 1000$, because we don't
have more and others later, when we have plenty get 5000$. And 1000$ is
definitely not enough to make a living - 3000$ sound better but would still end
up in 18$/hour.

regards,
 Otto

> Regards,
> Marco
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> 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
>