[Qgis-psc] commercial support companies to besome official QGIS sponsors?

[Otto Dassau]

Hi Paolo,

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:30:04 +0200
Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:

> Otto Dassau ha scritto:
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > just an idea and maybe not even good :), but what about asking and
> > encouraging companies, who are listed on the commercial support webpage to
> > contribute with some money or ... to the QGIS project? 
> > 
> > Maybe a few hundred Euro per year (bronze sponsor?), wouldn't hurt them at
> > all, but would help us or maybe even pay our yearly hackfest meetings and/or
> > something else? 
> > 
> > There are at the moment 11 companies listed, maybe they are willing.
> 
> An interesting idea, worth examining in detail, but I see two problems:
> - several of these companies already invest in QGIS, more or less
> heavily, and asking the same amount could be seen as unfair

yes, I agree - that's difficult.

> - technical support and sponsorship are two different beasts, and mixing
> the two could lead to unexpected (negative) results.
> What we can do soon, if you all agree, is to ask them directly to become
> also sponsors; from their responses we'll have more elements to decide
> how to proceed (if they all agree, then support==sponsors, and the
> problem will be solved).

yes, that might be an idea and maybe we find a solution. It was just an idea to
get more money ;). Let's see what the others say.

> All the best.

regards,
 Otto