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

[Raymond Nijssen]

While organizing the hackfest in 's-Hertogenbosch I was looking for 
sponsors. My goal was getting the entire hf costs covered by (Dutch) 
sponsors. It worked out pretty well. I think while talking with the 
companies, at first most don't feel like spending money on Qgis. It's 
the main reason for using it (I guess). But usually after some minutes 
they started understanding that supporting the development makes sense.

Also, having the hf in The Netherlands made it feel closer to them, 
compared to the download button on some international website.

I'd be happy to help finding those larger and long term sponsors. They 
are not in my network (yet) but if I bump into them I will see what's 
possible. I would say you need to meet the people using QGIS anyway.

There's a super nice interview with Blender founder Ton Roosendaal on 
youtube. Quite a long watch but I really enjoyed all of it. The story 
has many parallels to QGIS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJEWOTZnFeg

Kind regards,
Raymond


On 25-08-2020 08:03, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi Nyall,
> 
> It is always good to get ideas / leads from other OS projects. Thanks 
> for sharing this case.
> 
> A couple of months ago I approached Google (via Ed Parsons) - but didn't 
> get a reply, unfortunately. I know that Google employees use QGIS a lot.
> 
> If anyone has interesting leads (e.g. within Microsoft of Google), let 
> me know.
> 
> I will also try to approach the blender project to see if they have any 
> recommendations / suggestions how to approach possible sponsors.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andreas
> 
> 
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 07:14, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com 
> <mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     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!!
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