[Qgis-psc] Financial warning

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi,

In that respect I hope that our change from sponsors  to sustaining 
members (to be voted on during the upcoming AGM) will help to attract 
more organizations to join as financial supporters. I am positive that 
it will help, esp. for governmental organizations and universities.

Andreas


Am 02.03.19 um 11:50 schrieb Andreas Neumann:
> Dear PSC,
>
> In the light of the current discussion around AGM and fast release 
> pace, here is some additional information and concern I have as the 
> financial manager of the project:
>
> Most of our financial resources go into bug fixing (> 50%) and I have 
> the impression that this share is increasing every year. Currently I 
> have to send out a warning that our financial resources are dwindling 
> rapidly - our bank account is down below 30k €. For every release we 
> spend about 10-20k more on bug fixing than allocated in the budget. As 
> a consequence, we will have to either cancel the QGIS grants this year 
> or skip bug fixing of release 3.8 or cut down drastically if we can't 
> find additional financial supporters. I am very grateful that many 
> core qgis devs can find the time to participate in the paid bug fixing 
> (and they do a very good job!) - but unfortunately bugs are coming in 
> quicker ...
>
> I don't want to sound overly pessimistic - but it is my duty to let 
> you know about this development that we currently spend more than we 
> get in. Something will have to change in this respect during the 3.8 
> release or we'll have to skip the QGIS grants program this year.
>
> Andreas
>
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