[Qgis-psc] 2019 grant voting is closed

Sun Jun 30 16:00:42 PDT 2019

great as usual.
thanks a lot Anita

On Sun, 30 Jun 2019, 21:48 Anita Graser, <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:

> 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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