[Qgis-user] QGIS in the commercial world

[Bo Victor Thomsen]

Hi Michael -

It is 100% voluntary if a company wants to pay for a sustaining 
membership. Pay what you feel is appropriate. Or pay a one-time donation.

As an example : The Danish QGIS Usergroup (of which I'm a board member) 
pays as a "Large Member" each year. We represent a number of 
municipalities and companies that using is QGIS. Every institution pays 
around 300 Euro /year for membership in the Danish User Group.

A large part of the usergroup's income goes directly to the 
international QGIS organisation. The rest is used for QGIS activities 
related directly to Denmark.

Some of our members also supports  qgis.org directly or by supporting 
QGIS development.

The point is: Every organisation supports QGIS  with the amount of money 
they find is appropriate. Or by other method, like directly supporting 
the development of new functionality.

-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards

Bo Victor Thomsen


Den 16-04-2020 kl. 02:45 skrev Michael Dufty:
>
> Sustaining membership works  out a bit steep for us if you follow the 
> guideline – about 10 times what we currently pay for commercial 
> software (Manifold).
>
> Is it reasonable to interpret number of employees as GIS users rather 
> than total employees?
>
> I see my local council is on there as small, and I’m sure they have 
> more than 10 employees.
>
> Obviously no limits apply if we go with donations without membership.
>
> *Michael Dufty*
>
> *From:*Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 15 April 2020 1:47 PM
> *To:* Iain at jcis.net.au; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS in the commercial world
>
> Dear Iain,
>
> Yes, QGIS has an entity: QGIS.ORG is the worldwide association of QGIS 
> users and developers. QGIS.ORG is constituted as a Swiss ‘association’ 
> (https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/charter.html) but it 
> is not a registered charity.
>
> To help support QGIS, organizations are invited to become sustaining 
> members of QGIS.ORG. The details of our sustaining membership program 
> are described in: 
> https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sustaining_members/sustaining_members.html
>
> You can also see who's already supporting QGIS: 
> https://qgis.org/en/site/about/sustaining_members.html 
> <https://qgis.org/en/site/about/sustaining_members.html>
>
> Regards,
>
> Anita
>
>
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