[Qgis-user] put a reward on the head of the whishlist tasks

[maning sambale]

I agree with the general idea.  I am floating the idea in my current
institution.  We need a couple of tools/plugin and we want QGIS to be
our main app for "basic" GIS task.

Some info the "bosses" need are: how much is needed; how long can it
be delivered; how reliable.

I have complete faith that QGIS developers can implement the
functionality.  I just need to make a complete/comprehensive case for
me to "sell" it to management.


On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:30 PM, G. Allegri <giohappy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello list.
> In these days, reading the various whishes in the past thread [1], I
> was wondering about the various "business strategies" to speed up and
> give more robust support to QGIS development. I don't know if the way
> of putting a reward on the head of a certain target has been discussed
> before, anyway I want to share some thoughts.
> It could be considered in a two-way meaning:
>
>  - an user (single o corporative) needs a certain
> tool/utility/feature/etc: he describes it and put a reward on it. It
> becomes an open task to which anyone can contribute, also providing
> more foundings (a way to gather sparse needs)
>
>  - a qgis developer is able to develop a certain tool, or to solve a
> bug, make an improvement, etc., but he needs money (not everything can
> be done on free time!). He puts an expected reward on his work.
> Maybe/probably there can be users that would find its work very useful
> and could contribute to its founding.
>
> In both cases the reward could be distinguished between development
> reward and short-term/long-term support founding.
> I'm not referring only to software dev but documentation, diffusion
> supports, etc., too.
>
> Obviously it would need the design of an efficient, effective and
> transparent founds management design, and a system to submit a
> "contract" with the parts involved.
> The complexity of such a system could be managed involving the local
> actors that offer QGIS support, both in the development offer and the
> requests gathering, but with a shared common system. I don't introduce
> the idea of a commercial brand/trademark because it's critical under
> many aspects, but we could reproduce something similar to guarantee on
> the quality of this system and of the products...
>
> I'm considering to apply the idea to other cases other then QGIS,
> because I find that it can encourage potential founders, realizing a
> direct relationship between them and the developers through a
> concrete, focused, task. Besides it doesn't contrast with the
> traditional polling system, and the core development choices leaded by
> the developers team and invoked by the community. While the latter
> remains the foundamental, voluntary based, QGIS development approach,
> my proposal could be part of a parallel, more structured, commercial
> system...
>
> What do you think about this? Could it be something feasable and
> useful for QGIS?
>
> Cheers,
> giovanni
>
> PS: I'm sorry for my english but I hope I've been able to explain the
> basics of my idea!
> [1] http://n2.nabble.com/Ideas-for-QGIS-plugin--td2240074.html
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