[Qgis-psc] Increasing requests for targeted sponsorships

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi,

What is the process for earmarked funding?
How will the developer be chosen?
In which timeframe should the development happen and what happens to the
money in case the development does not happen (Mainly in case there is
not enough funding available for a decent solution)?

I'm not sure bugfixing falls into the same category. There is a list and
it's also valuable if bugfixing is done on an hourly base (in comparison
to features which should be treated as a whole). So this money seems to
be acceptable and should then be redistributed by the PSC who already
knows about the availability of deveopers.

Best regards,
Matthias

On 12/22/2015 02:30 PM, Anita Graser wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net
> <mailto:a.neumann at carto.net>> wrote:
>
>     I am getting an increasing number of requests for targeted
>     financial contributions and wonder if it is ok to handle them.
>
>
> ​On ​our website
> http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sponsorship/sponsorship.html,
> we currently state quite clearly:
> "
> We regret that we cannot accept ‘earmarked’ funding as it creates many
> administrative issues. If you are interested in funding specific
> aspects of QGIS development, we encourage you to allocate additional
> human resources to the project, e.g. hiring a developer, or
> participating to our bug fixing initiative.
> ​"
>
> Has our position on this changed? Do we have the resources to handle
> all the administrative issues related to targeted donations or
> earmarked funding - however we want to call it?
>
> Best wishes,
> Anita
>
> ​
>
>
>
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