[Qgis-psc] Appealing to OSGEO for support funding OSGEO4W

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi Tim,

Il 24/11/19 21:58, Tim Sutton ha scritto:
> Hi Folks
> 
> The current situation seems a little broken at the moment: QGIS (and our
> intrepid windows packaging guru) drives the process of maintaining
> OSGEO4W. When we want to allocate funds to support this work we are
> essentially doing it for all of OSGEO. That seems like an inverted
> arrangement and I was wondering if we shouldn’t appeal to OSGEO to
> create a fund / annual budget allowance to support this (either directly
> or by providing funds to QGIS.org <http://QGIS.org> which can then pass
> those on to packaging devs as appropriate). What do others think about
> this? Paolo it would be great if you could approach them about it if
> others agree.

I totally agreed with you. I tried several times, years back, to talk to
Osgeo about this, and I got no positive reply. Hopefully things have
changed now, I'll try again.

> I’m feeling very bad that at the moment we put a lot of pressure on a
> few individuals, everybody is happy to complain about things and they
> are really doing amazing work in trying circumstances. Funding their
> work would allow them to spend larger tranches of time on it when needed
> and af nothing else, at least make them feel acknowledged financially
> for their blood, sweat and tears (hopefully not too many of the former
> and latter)!

I couldn't agree more.
Let me do it and I'll report back to PSC.

Cheers.
-- 
Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
QGIS.ORG Chair:
http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/