[Qgis-user] Recognition of QGIS feature funders

[Nyall Dawson]

On 03/07/2014 11:18 pm, "Andreas Neumann" <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

I'm strongly in favor of this idea. We could set some strict guidelines
about acceptable logo size and decide on a standard "funded by..." string
for the changelog, to avoid sponsors expecting huge logos or massive blurbs
about their organization.

Nyall
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