[Qgis-psc] Updated financial information

Wed Apr 11 06:14:52 PDT 2018

Hi Luigi,

I think there is a "threshold value" per book title - not for all books
together. As long as the accumulated royalties (per title) do not surpass
75 £, they do not pay out the royalties. Correct, Anita? So, it doesn't
help to have a lot of titles on QGIS, if no title by itself is popular
enough to surpass the 75 £ threshold. I don't know how many copies have to
be  sold to reach 75 £ royalties. Royalties are 2% from the overall sales
by title.

Andreas

On 11 April 2018 at 13:32, Luigi Pirelli <luipir at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Adnreas,
>
> I can't find how much was the % for QGIS packt books... but 200€ seems
> really a low income, especially because they have many QGIS titles. The
> questions are:
>
> 1) what is the %
> 2) was on all QGIS titles or only on specific ones?
>
> cheers
>
> Luigi Pirelli
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> On 11 April 2018 at 08:14, Andreas Neumann <andreas at qgis.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear PSC,
>>
>> The accounting document is now up-to-date:
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VOt4RFJkJ7LaTAnEGmQ2
>> VB1DZT8Q9Ior-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_33jRVq
>> FTkRU7KYrg8GyBLFdkYC2hw/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
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