[Qgis-psc] Analysis of donations/sponsorship 2016

[Neumann, Andreas]

Hi Paolo, 

I did not have any data on downloads per country. Is such data
available? 

About USA: compared to Europe, this country is very much dominated by
one single vendor. I don't need to mention which one. Many governmental
organizations have site licenses and aren't allowed to use any other GIS
software besides it. In addition, if you are consulting business and
work as a contractor for the government, you typically have to deliver
projects and data formats of this single vendor. So no choice either.
With such background, it seems expectable that we do not receive
sponsorships from the US. I am, however, surprised how many private
donations we receive from the US. 

This fact is also undermined by the search volume that QGIS and ArcGIS
trigger on Google trends - see
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=QGIS,ArcGIS - compare
that to the woldwide search volume or especially some European countries
and the situation looks a lot different. 

Do you have another explanation for the fact that we don't receive
sponsorships from the US? 

Greetings, 

Andreas 

On 2017-02-15 06:14, Paolo Cavallini wrote:

> Il 14/02/2017 11:30, Andreas Neumann ha scritto: 
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Please find a little analysis of the sponsorships and donations in 2016.
>> Spatial and temporal distributions.
>> 
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wfn1cL9Ix5hCrVLF5WTZ8ZAJNY_PPYxIMgne4P-6jLM/edit#
> 
> Hi Andreas,
> very interesting, thanks. Some thoughts:
> * it would also be interesting to normalize these data with number of
> downloads
> * USA seem a special case: lots of donations, no sponsors; it will be
> good to understand why, and how to make sponsoring more attractive there.
> All the best, and thanks again.

  
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