[Qgis-psc] Can we model fund raising efforts from Blender?

[Nyall Dawson]

Hi PSC,

I've been watching with interest the number of large organisations who
have jumped onboard with regular sponsorship for the Blender project
recently.

They're now up to 100k+ per month (see https://fund.blender.org/),
with some massive contributors like Microsoft, Intel, Google, and
Ubuntu (among many others).

Looking at this list of sponsors, there's a lot there who I suspect
wouldn't directly be benefiting from Blender itself, and are instead
using this as a means of publicly supporting open source instead.

I'm wondering if there's anything we can model off/copy from Blender's
fund raising approach for QGIS. Possibly we could look through their
list of corporate sponsors and approach some of these for QGIS
sponsorship too (e.g. Microsoft*, Intel,. ..)

Nyall



* I'd be surprised if Microsoft staff weren't already using QGIS
internally to some capacity!!