[Qgis-user] Recognition of QGIS feature funders

[Alexandre Neto]

Hello all,

I feel that we would have the exact same problem in Portugal. Public
entities will not be able to donate, because they must justify the spent
money with some direct need.

On the other hand, to convince a decision maker or politician that
investing in QGIS is (also) good for their image, without have a visible
place to advertise it, might be very difficult to achieve.

You probably have discussed this before, but how about consider Funding
organizations (or persons) as sponsors if the funded feature are of public
and generalized use? The amount of work could be quantified and a gold,
silver of bronze sponsor badge given in accordance with the same rules
applied.

If the feature is not considered of general use (a national or regional
specific feature or plugin) or if the estimated amount of work does not
reach the bronze sponsor value, then the changelog would be enough (Tho If
I were a decision maker I would prefer to see it in the QGIS main webpage).

Best regards,

Alexandre Neto


On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:

> In the visual changelog I wouldn't propose to include logos of funding
> organizations. Just the name and the link to the organization.
>
> Andreas
>
> Am 03.07.2014 13:18, schrieb Andreas Neumann:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I think a mention of the organization who funded a feature in the visual
> > changelog is a reasonable request. Not much work and a fair recognition
> > and "thank you" visible by many.
> >
> > In the visual changelog you also list the sponsors at the very top - so
> > why not also mentioning the funding organization? If there are two or
> > three co-funding you can list them all.
> >
> > I can see a positive effect by this that other organizations may also
> > think about funding a specific feature if they see that other
> > organizations do the same.
> >
> > I don't think that many users are aware that more than half of QGIS
> > features would not exist if organizations or companies would not fund
> them.
> >
> > I am with Nicolas and Oslandia on this request and I think that the
> > visual changelog is a good place to thank the funders.
> >
> > Andreas
> >
> > Am 03.07.2014 12:29, schrieb n.rochard at aduga.org:
> >> Sear Paolo
> >>
> >> I think, social network is a good way, politician are using it a lot.
> >> The oher way should put the name and logo of the agency/business wich
> fund
> >> entirely a new feature on the graphic changelog
> >> (http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/2.4.0/)
> >>
> >> Thanks for your quick reply
> >>
> >> Nicolas
> >
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