[Qgis-user] Recognition of QGIS feature funders

[n.rochard at aduga.org]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to explain that problem with no recognition of other private funding.
I beleive in QGIS but i have no skill for coding. So I try to use my job tilte
for find some fund for improve QGIS.

I've started discussion with Anita Graser on Twitter for that. She explained to
me that I paid for a special features and I will not display because I do note
give money directly to QGIS project.

I'm not agree with that because :
- We choose official commiter QGIS for working into the core and not for an
external plugin. (even if we also make some plugin and amazing number of plugin
available contribute to QGIS popularity)
- We contribute to improve QGIS and i popularity (SVG layer allow better work in
DAO software like Inkscap or Illustrator)
- I work for local authorities and in French law, it's not possible to give
money without a precise goal but we can make improvment with a specific order.
That's the reason why I will never able to sponsoring QGIS without ask a
specific feature that is missing.

And for local elected people that allow me to spend money into QGIS, they want
to appear clearly. Its how it works on our territory. They won't check a
changelog text file, they won't go to github, thay want to be display or quote
somewhere where they could show to people what they do for them.

If you don't display there action, you could really loose some funds for improve
or help QGIS... Myself, I won't be able anymore to fund 6000 € per year for
improve QGIS ... :(

Best regards

Nicolas Rochard
Agence de développement et d'urbanisme du Grand Amiénois (Aduga)

> Le 3 juillet 2014 à 09:33, Andrea Peri <aperi2007 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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