[Qgis-psc] Blender Foundation as example

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Richard

So I watched it through and it seems to be pretty similar to my vision for QGIS: 

* QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/> which provides a secretariat with paid admin and key infrastructure staff paid on a professional full time basis. QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/> being non-profit and not taking on commercial work or trying to compete with the various companies that exist out there already as part of the developer ecosystem.
* QGIS Community which is made up of our already awesome community of contributors, developers, fans and cheerleaders. The community contributes in all the ways that the .org could never do like supporting fellow users, making cool I ? SHP stickers, writing cool tutorials etc.

I struggled to understand him a lot of the time so I might have missed some nuance, but from where I sit if Blender is what you see as a project that ‘does it right’, QGIS is heading in a good direction!

Regards

Tim

> On 3 Nov 2019, at 20:32, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:
> 
> On 03/11/2019 19.57, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>> Il 2019-11-03 14:13 Richard Duivenvoorde ha scritto:
>> 
>>> But sending this to this list, because the Keynote of Ton Roosendaal
>>> which is rather inspiring for FOSS lovers, and Blender being a 'Winner'
>>> (too?)..
>>> 
>>> https://youtu.be/Jcl3--cbULk
>>> 
>>> I thought maybe it could be an example for QGIS-Foundation?
>>> 
>>> Other video's are also cool to look at...
>> 
>> thanks Richard. could you please quickly summarize what is most relevant
> 
> Just it is an inspiring keynote, and he explains *what* is important for
> Blender: "the community', and invites (big!) companies to be part of the
> community. Instead of trying to be or trying to be a company.
> 
> If I am correct they split up in a foundation and an 'institute', the
> latter being responsible for bringing up money (via courses) etc
> 
> It's just 25 minutes, you can skip what you do not like (like the first
> 6,5 minute where he counts people :-) )
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
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