[Qgis-psc] 2019 grant voting is closed

Sun Jun 30 11:47:59 PDT 2019

Hi,

This is the blog post draft. Please let me know if we need to change
anything. As previously mentioned, I assume we can fund 22k instead of the
original 20k:

We are extremely pleased to announce the winning proposals for our 2019
QGIS.ORG grant programme. Funding for the programme was sourced by
you, our project
donors and sponsors <https://www.qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html>!
*Note:* For more context surrounding our grant programme, please see: QGIS
Grants #4: Call for Grant Proposals 2019
<http://blog.qgis.org/2019/05/06/qgis-grants-4-call-for-grant-proposals-2019/>
.

The QGIS.ORG Grant Programme aims to support work from our community that
would typically not be funded by client/contractor agreements. For the
first time, this year we did not accept proposals for the development of
new features. Instead proposals should focus on infrastructure improvements
and polishing of existing features.

Voting to select the successful projects was carried out by our QGIS Voting
Members. Each voting member was allowed to select up to 6 of the 10
submitted proposals by means of a ranked selection form. The full list of
votes are available here
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f6eAOW8XyxIfuQA1JF5qR1TinDQugofOrNoPJpY-ZUo/edit?usp=sharing>
(on
the first sheet). The second sheet contains the calculations used to
determine the winner (for full transparency). The table below summarizes
the voting tallies for the proposals:

A couple of extra notes about the voting process:

   - The PSC has an ongoing program to fund documentation so elected to
   fund the proposal "Open documentation issues for pull requests" even if
   this increases the total funded amount beyond the initial budget.
   - Although the budget for the grant programme was €20,000, the total
   amount for the winning proposals is €22,200. This increase is possible
   thanks to the generous support by our donors and sponsors this year.
   - Voting was carried out based on the technical merits of the proposals
   and the competency of the applicants to execute on these proposals.
   - No restrictions were in place in terms of how many proposals could be
   submitted per person / organization, or how many proposals could be awarded
   to each proposing person / organization.
   - Voting was ‘blind’ (voters could not see the existing votes that had
   been placed).

We received 31 votes from 16 community representatives and 15 user group
representatives.

On behalf of the QGIS.ORG project, I would like to thank everyone who
submitted proposals for this call!
A number of interesting and useful proposal didn’t make it because of
our limited budget; we encourage organizations to pick up one of
their choice and sponsor it.

Regards,
Anita

On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 5:29 PM Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
>
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 08:06 Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks Anita for doing the work on the grant proposals! Looks good to me.
>>
> While we only had announced a budget of 20k, I marked the top 6 proposals
> with a total of 22k, particularly since the 6th is a documentation proposal.
>
> I'll write the blog post later today.
>
> Regards,
> Anita
>
>
>
>
>
> Personally I find it sad that server proposals never get a majority on
>> such votings. Seems like Desktop is still the priority for most voters. But
>> hey - improvements in QGIS core should also benefit server.
>>
>> And at least we now have a proposal and price tag for the open server
>> proposals and can find someone else to fund these improvements.
>>
>> All of the proposals sounded useful to me and I hope we can find others
>> to finance some of the proposals that didn't make it. Or they can submit
>> again next year if that topic is still relevant then.
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> On 2019-06-25 23:02, Tim Sutton wrote:
>>
>> Hi Anita
>>
>> All looks good to me.- thanks for doing this!
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On 25 Jun 2019, at 19:11, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The grant voting is finished. We received 31 votes from 16 community
>> representatives and 15 user group representatives.
>>
>> I've run the numbers to determine the successful proposals but I think we
>> should have at least two more PSC members cross checking the results before
>> publishing them:
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f6eAOW8XyxIfuQA1JF5qR1TinDQugofOrNoPJpY-ZUo/edit?usp=sharing
>>
>>
>> Please have a look and let me know if you confirm. My plan would be to
>> announce the successful proposals on Sunday 30th June.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Anita
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