[Qgis-psc] Updated financial information

[Paolo Cavallini]

Thanks a lot Andreas, so nice to see this clear picture.
Any comment on the income? Still about 80% is missing, I assume you
expect the rest will be coming through the year, correct? Is this in
line with previous years?
All the best.

Il 11/04/2018 08:14, Andreas Neumann ha scritto:
> Dear PSC,
> 
> The accounting document is now up-to-date:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VOt4RFJkJ7LaTAnEGmQ2VB1DZT8Q9Ior-b_uBAVP8YQ/edit#gid=1008844512
> 
> For those who don't have much time - you can see the summary: aggregated
> numbers in categories in comparison with 2018 budget proposal:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WphBgUOx0abTJ_33jRVqFTkRU7KYrg8GyBLFdkYC2hw/edit#gid=0
> 
> Some comments:
> 
>   * We spent more on QGIS 3.0 bug fixing than budgeted already. There
>     are still so many open problems with QGIS 3.x, if you look into the
>     bug tracker. So - Paolo - if you could do the Call for Donations /
>     Sponsorships - as discussed in the last meeting - to help finance
>     open issues, it would really help!
>   * Expenses on dev meetings are generally cheaper than budgeted. F.e.
>     for Madeira we budgeted 7k, but only 3.3k are spent so far.
>   * There is about 4k additional sponsorship money to be expected in the
>     next 1-2 days.
>   * One positive surprise: Spreadshirt is generating more income than
>     expected
>   * One negative issue: training certificates are not doing well. Not a
>     single one sold so far.
>   * The Packt Publishing royalty scheme is also not generating much
>     income at the moment. Seems the QGIS books don't sell so well. We
>     didn't pass the tresholds so far on them when they would pay out the
>     royalty money.
> 
> Finally an example on how much we loose during a PayPal sponsorship or
> donation payment:
> 
> Take for example a sponsorship money from Canada (Chartwell Consultants):
> 
> They pay 500 €. In our PayPal account, this arrives as 477.65 €. So
> PayPal earned 22.35 € (4.5%)  on that single small payment! Later, when
> this money is transferred to our bank account, they convert that
> remaining 477.65 to CHF and my bank is converting it back to €, because
> our account runs in €. All of my attempts to convince PayPal to not do
> the unnecessary payment failed so far. In their simple view of the world
> - there is one single currency per country - they can't change that view
> of their world! The amount that arrives in our bank account after the
> unnecessary currency conversion (€ --> CHF --> €) is € 457.35. Again  -
> PayPal - and our bank - is earning money during this unnecessary
> currency conversion. So from 500 € we loose overall 9.14 percent. Don't
> you think this is almost a criminal act from PayPal and our bank? How
> can it be justified that they earn >9 % from a single payment?
> 
> On the other hand - if this payment was made as a SEPA payment from
> within Europe the full amount of 500 € would appear in our bank account.
> Not a single cent would be lost.
> 
> For me, this is an incentive to a) convince people to uses SEPA payments
> (direct bank transfers) where possible and b) move to Stripe for credit
> card payments (where necessary - for payments outside of Europe) as
> quickly as possible. They don't do the unnecessary currency conversions
> and their overall fees are lower. We would loose only 3-4 percent
> instead of >9.
> 
> Thanks and greetings,
> Andreas
> 
> 
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> Andreas Neumann
> QGIS.ORG <http://QGIS.ORG> board member (treasurer)
> 
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