[Qgis-psc] Discussion our financial situation

[Matthias Kuhn]

If I understand Andreas correctly it needs to be spent soon because of 
taxes.

Personally I'm happy with grant proposals just as much as I trust the 
PSC to spend this wisely in an ad-hoc situation.

Matthias

On 11/14/19 12:35 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> 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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>>>
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>>>   
>>> *Tim Sutton*
>>> tim at qgis.org <mailto:tim at qgis.org>
>>>   
>>>
>>>
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