[Qgis-psc] Discussion on the QGIS grant proposals

[Neumann, Andreas]

Hi Marco, 

I am pretty sure that the community voting members have a good sense and
overview what is good and necessary for the project. I am not so sure if
all of the user groups have the same amount of insight into the project
- but they have their users perspective. 

In that context I thought it is useful to have such a discussion - and
also to put it into the context of the already existing principles of
our funding - meaning that we usually don't want to support development
of new features, because we believe that these are easier to be financed
by others and can be developed directly in contracts with companies. 

Sorry that I rushed a bit into it, but the voting period is short and I
wanted to provide some background information. 

Andreas 

On 2016-09-22 08:51, Marco Hugentobler wrote:

> Hi Andreas
> 
> Do you think it is necessary to discuss the proposals in a mailing list before voting? The voting members should have access to the project descriptions and they are familiar with the QGIS project.
> 
> There might be the problem that good proposals from people without community networking are rejected (similar as it happens in politics that good ideas are not considered because the major political parties do not support them).
> 
> Regards,
> Marco  
> 
> On 09/22/16 07:19, Neumann, Andreas wrote: 
> 
>> Hi all, 
>> 
>> I wonder, now that voting on QGIS grants proposals are open, if we should do a short discussion on what we got. 
>> 
>> I personally have an opinion on the grants, which I would be willing to share if you care and think it is appropriate. 
>> 
>> This would be in the tradition of the Swiss democracy, where, at the beginning of each voting period, each stakeholder (e.g. a group of people or a political party) gets some room to share opinions. The opinions of the stakeholders are collected and jointly published with the opinion of the Swiss government - in a printed brochure (not that I ask for a printed brochure ;-) - just explaining how this works in Switzerland). 
>> 
>> If you think it is useful - what would be a good mailing list to discuss it? QGIS developers list? I assume that most community members are on the qgis-developer list, but maybe not all QGIS user group representatives? Should we cross-post this on the QGIS-user and qgis-developer mailing list or would this forum be too big and it should be restricted to the members who can vote? 
>> 
>> What is your opinion? 
>> 
>> Andreas
>> 
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