[Qgis-user] Recognition of QGIS feature funders

[Andrea Peri]

Hi,

my personal point of view on this question.

I spent a lot of my personal time on qgis.
Of course I work for a Public Administration and we had spent some fund on qgis.
Not only qgis, but also geos, postgis, spatialite, gdal.
More or less on every of them.

The problem for us is to have a tracciability (hope this is the
correct english word) of fund.

And avoid that more PA pay the same think more time.
:)

This is a need because often the work is not completly isolated from to others.
Instead it is mix with the work of other funders.
And we like to avoid that the developer

- Please notice: this is a point of principle to ALL our work not only
to qgis. No reference to any qgis developer. -

could sell the same develop to more than one PA.
To avoid this we ask that the code will have a clear report of who
fund and of the name of project (the fund project)

This also help to certificate that the fund we declare to spent on
QGIS , we have spent the fund REALLY on QGIS and not in any other
thing.

Also, I guess who spent its own free time to work on qgis, could have
also it a really interest to have recognized its work
as a funder of qgis don't ?

So why don't report the funders , thinking to who work freely as a funders ?

my 2ct,

Andrea.


2014-07-03 8:19 GMT+02:00 Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:
> Il 02/07/2014 17:18, Vincent Picavet ha scritto:
>
>> I want to raise an important topic to fellow QGIS users, developers and...
>> funders ! It is clear from the release process debate, that one of the thing
>> we need, is more funders.
>
>> This is communication, but improving the general feedback to the organizations
>> which really are spending money on QGIS to improve it for all of us to benefit
>> from, would really help to get more people and more organizations involved.
>
> Hi Vincent,
>
> thanks for raising this important point. The issue is well known, and we have been
> discussing about it several times. In principle we'd be happy to give proper credits
> to funders. The main issue, IMHO, is that it is difficult to be fair in this:
> * How do we weight different contributions?
> * We all do some extra work (unpaid of covered by the surplus of major works): how to
> take this into account? If we do not do it, we effectively discourage developers and
> firms from contributing.
> The current approach, allowing funders to add a short note on the commits, and
> encouraging them to advertise it by posting notes and descriptions of these
> functions, is flexible and adds little overhead. I feel some of your suggestions
> would add too much noise e.g. to the About box.
>
> All the best.
>
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