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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

And the other thing they do, which I have long been petitioning for in
QGIS, is hire a corps of professional, full time, paid staff

https://code.blender.org/2020/07/2020-21-recruitment/

It would be great if we could plan for a similar approach given the huge
impact it could have on QGIS and taking us to the next level.

Regards

Tim

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 8:20 AM Raymond Nijssen <r.nijssen at terglobo.nl>
wrote:

> 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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