[Qgis-psc] Follow-up: supporting community members impacted by Covid19

[Vincent Picavet (ml)]

Hello,

On 06/05/2020 16:40, Anita Graser wrote:
> Since our meeting yesterday ran over time, we decided to take this point
> to the mailing list:
> 
> The idea, raised by Tim, was if we as a community could help members who
> are impacted by the Covid crisis. Community members who are having a
> hard time getting paying work right now could be encouraged to apply for
> the grant programme. These applications could receive preferential
> treatment when it comes to voting which applications will be funded.
> 
> Obviously this idea is at an early stage and not every step is clear
> already. The call for grant proposals as published right now is open
> until May 24th:
> http://blog.qgis.org/2020/04/26/qgis-grants-5-call-for-grant-proposals-2020/
> 
> Looking forward to hearing what you think!

I was about to answer more or less like Nyall.

I can understand the good willing behind such idea, I really doubt that we can
make it happen in a fair and transparent manner.

There are more than 2.5 billion people confined in the world, and with a global
economic crisis to come, I think we can say that everyone is impacted.
Some more, some less, but to draw a line somewhere would lead to judge very
complex and sometimes very personal situations, with a large heterogeneity in
situation. As for the amount we are talking about, I guess it is not worth it to
make any difference without a lot of headaches.

Should we want to help people impacted by the crisis, then making a donation to
an organization specialized in helping covid-10 crisis would probably be a
better option.
Or provide opensource tools useful for modelling of geospatial phenomenon, like
virus propagation ;-)

Regards,

Vincent