[Qgis-psc] donations

[Otto Dassau]

Hi,

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:24:43 +0200
Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:

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> Hi
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> 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
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> 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?

yes, they should have transfered money (500 Euro) to gfoss.it. Isn't it already
there?

> >> 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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> Regards

regards,
 Otto