[Qgis-psc] Increasing requests for targeted sponsorships

[Otto Dassau]

Hi,

also +1 from me to make a) possible with generall ‘buckets’ of funding, if
it's ok for Andreas. I know from the German community that the main focus is
to support the QGIS project and if possible, have some (not very specific)
influence on what the money is spent for, as well

If they do not agree with that and want to have a specific task be done, I
would still support the sentence: "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."

Regards,
Otto

Am Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:55:22 +0200
schrieb Tim Sutton <tim at qgis.org>:

> Hi
> 
> My rationale for adding that phrase (precluding targeted donations) was 
> 
> a) mainly do to administrative overhead and 
> b) also due to a concern that it would create contractual expectations -
> the donor will expect something specific to happen in return for their
> donation. I think specific tasks are better dealt with in direct
> relationships between donors and developers, and we as the project can
> point donors to suitably skilled devs.
> 
> That said, I think if Andreas feels ok to manage (a) and we create general
> enough ‘buckets’ of funding (documentation, bug fixing, hack tests or
> whatever) then (b) should not become an issue.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> > On 22 Dec 2015, at 20:18, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> > 
> > Il 22/12/2015 17:58, Andreas Neumann ha scritto:
> > 
> >> Maybe we need to discuss this in our next board meeting.
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> >> In my opinion it would be foolish to reject all this potential funding.
> > 
> > sure, we must not reject - just find the most efficient and way of
> > dealing with this, making all our community happy.
> > 
> > thanks for raising this, Andreas.
> > -- 
> > Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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