[Qgis-psc] QGIS 3 code sprint

[Neumann, Andreas]

Hi, 

I would appreciate if the local meetings could primarily be
organized/financed by the local user groups - they should ask local
users/companies for membership fees (like Switzerland, Germany and Italy
does) and try to come up with their own local funds. QGIS.ORG can help
here and there to complete finances, if a bit is missing. 

We just recently had some major expenses (20.5 k for QGIS grants, about
12 k for 2.18 bug fixing). Currently, we should be conservative with our
spending and save our financial resources for really important 3.0
coding work (work that isn't financed by others) and bug fixing. I think
we should spend significantly more money on bug fixing for 3.0 than for
a regular release. 

While I think that meetings are useful/important to discuss things,
meetings usually are not the place where much code is produced. Besides,
with github and mailing lists we have good platforms to discuss issues
also without a meeting. I think we should concentrate our meeting
expenses to the two annual global meetings we have - as it is at these
meetings where most core devs meet at once. It is also quite unlikely
that most core devs can come to much more than two meetings in a year,
because they are either too far away or have contract work to do. 

This is my personal opinion. 

Andreas 

On 2016-11-10 17:36, Tim Sutton wrote:

> Hi Yves 
> 
>> On 07 Nov 2016, at 7:27 PM, Yves Jacolin <yjacolin at free.fr> wrote: 
>> 
>> Dear PSC,
>> 
>> Several french(-swiss) companies are interested to organized a code sprint 
>> before the end of  the year.
>> 
>> As said in a previous mail last week, we (OSGeo-fr) are organizing an user 
>> meeting on the 1st and 2nd of December in Montpellier. Unfortunately we can't 
>> organized a code sprint there and decided to organized it independently of the 
>> user meeting.
>> 
>> This code sprint would take place in Lyon either in 29-29 November or 12-13 
>> December in regards of the feedback of the community [1].
>> 
>> We (Camptocamp, 3Liz, Oslandia) will focuse on QGIS v3, especially QGIS Server 
>> (but other developers are welcome to work on other parts).
>> 
>> We asked support from OSGeo-fr and still waiting the answer. We would like 
>> with this email to formalize the QGIS Code sprint organisation and discuss the 
>> possibilities to QGIS org to fund some  developer trip if needed.
>> 
>> This is quiet short to organized this so we will focused on lunch and dinner 
>> and location, no more (well if we find a location for a nice dinner it will be 
>> great). We will share a call for sponsorship program quickly this week.
>> 
>> Régis and I are the current organizer team and official contacts. Régis will 
>> post here the wiki page for the code sprint so you can register soon.
> 
> Sorry from my side also for the lack of feedback sooner. I think everything you present in the email sounds fine (and great to see local sprint efforts). In terms of funding, Andreas would be better informed if we have any spare funds but there is also the larger question of if when and how we should fund local events. Personally I think first priority should go to our twice yearly international events, but I think it would not be unreasonable to plan some part of our budget to ad hoc regional events on a first come first served basis until the budget is used up. Perhaps this is something we can incorporate into our next annual budget Andreas? 
> 
> Regards 
> 
> Tim 
> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Y.
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