[Qgis-psc] donations

[Tim Sutton]

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Hi

Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Tim Sutton ha scritto:
>> Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>>> Donations are coming (close to 200 EUR now). I'm collecting agreement to
>>> be mentioned publicly and I'll add them both to the web page
>>> (http://qgis.org/sponsorship/donors.html - I think it would be also good
>>> to show the actual balance sheet on a page: do you agree? Where can it
>>> be put? Can we write down also previous donations and expenses?) and to
>>> the DONORS list in src.
> 
> What are your suggestions for this (I mean, what and where to put these
> data? I had a positive reply for publication from all but one of the
> donors).

Currently we have only a SPONSORS list in source. I guess we should
change this to DONORS and have an empty SPONSORS list with a message
pointing people from the about dialog to the SPONSORS web page. As and
when we get sponsors we can add them to the about box.

On the website maybe we could have a finances page where we list the
current state of project finances.


> 
>> We should try to publish some kind of financial statement on an annual
>> basis too - it would be great if you could prepare this.
> 
> Fro now a statement should be rather simple:
> - $1943.90 USD were on our OSGeo account from the 2007 fund raising
> campaign, after compensating committers
> - we gave Tim Sutton ($1,000 USD) to help with the critical release of 1.0
> - we contributed a total of 500 $ to the expenses of Carson and
> Borys to help them participating to the 2008 hackfest (am I forgetting
> somebody?)
> Therefore we should still have $443.90 USD at OSGeo (Tyler, can you
> confirm?).
> In addition, we recently started another funding campaign, through
> GFOSS.it, and we collected a total of €395.00 EUR

Otto how did things look after the hackfest? You mentioned that the
FOSSGIS donation may have some money left that we could put into the
purse towards the next event?


> 
>> For the donations balance, it would be great to show the target for the
>> hackfest and the amount we have towards that as a little graph or something.
> 
> This would be good: any idea on how to implement this? just making a
> small PNG des not seem all too elegant to me...
> 

No I was thinking to have a kinda of progress bar on the left of the
website in the support QGIS sections. I'm sure there is already some
gizmo that will do this for us.


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