[Qgis-psc] Discussion our financial situation

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi all,
why not doing this through grants? I think (as the following discussion
shows) that deciding within the PSC what specific work to fund is always
open to discussions. Grants have proved IMHO to be a transparent and
efficient way of investing.
Cheers.

Il 14/11/19 08:23, Andreas Neumann ha scritto:
> Hi Tim
> 
> Improving our infrastructure (stripe integration, changelog, etc.) is
> definitely worth-while investing into it. Do you have estimates, how
> much time/money certain tasks would imply?
> 
> Or should we say - let's dedicate 10k € and let you work with it?
> 
> Yes, I also agree that bug fixing is always useful.
> 
> Thanks for your reply and greetings,
> 
> Andreas
> 
> On 2019-11-14 01:00, Tim Sutton wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>  
>>  
>> I would be grateful if we (Kartoza) could get funded to add the stripe
>> etc integration into the sponsorships platform, stripe payments for
>> certifications, and also improving the infrastructure management to
>> have a better setup for hosting plugins, feed, changelog, planet, and
>> automating the hosting of API Docs and QGIS site as GitHub pages or
>> similar static hosting environment. Many of these task are already
>> underway but it would help us to get dedicated time from Anita Hapsari
>> onto this.
>>  
>> Beyond that bug fixing is always a worthwhile thing to spend funds on,
>> we seem to have an endless supply :-P
>>  
>> Regards
>>  
>> Tim
>>
>>> On 13 Nov 2019, at 21:57, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net
>>> <mailto:a.neumann at carto.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I compiled a summary of our financial situation and compare it with
>>> the budget:
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I_xXVE8RGBNFnJGoBhdLYO4MVm8DlCRudhM1DRINSq8/edit#gid=0
>>>
>>> I also added expected income and expenses. Both our income and
>>> expenses will be higher than expected.
>>>
>>> In summary, we should spend an additional 15-18k € until the end of
>>> the year that is not in the budget or expected expenses in order not
>>> to have to pay taxes on revenues.
>>>
>>> Any ideas? Do we have useful and important work that could be
>>> finished until January for around 15k?
>>>
>>> Should we invest more QGIS bug fixing? Documentation (if we find
>>> one)? Our infrastructure? Or upstream qt5 improvements?
>>>
>>> Thanks for the discussion,
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
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>> ---
>>  
>> *Tim Sutton*
>> tim at qgis.org <mailto:tim at qgis.org>
>>  
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