[Qgis-user] QGIS in the commercial world

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Barend,

Right - that question should have been more clearly stated. I agree and 
apologize for not noticing it when we discussed it.

Thanks for filling in the survey!

Andreas

Am 16.04.20 um 09:36 schrieb b.j.kobben at utwente.nl:
>
> Just a side-note: I filled in the survey and said I work in an 
> organization of >100 employees. That is because my university has 
> almost 800 staff. But only a max of 50 or so use QGIS regularly. On 
> the other hand we have 3200 students of which also a proportion uses it...
>
> In other words, don't make assumptions on actual QGIS users based on 
> that survey question!
>
> -- 
>
> Barend Köbben
>
> Senior Lecturer – ITC- University Twente
>
> PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (The Netherlands)
>
> ITC Building (Hengelosestraat 99) room 1-065
>
> +31-(0)53 4874 253
>
> On 16/04/2020, 08:21, "Qgis-user on behalf of Andreas Neumann" 
> <qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> <mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of 
> a.neumann at carto.net <mailto:a.neumann at carto.net>> wrote:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Yes, I interpret it is the nr of employees using (Q)GIS on a regular 
> basis within an organization. And it is based on self-declaration and 
> there is no control about the numbers whatsoever.
>
> We have quite a nr of municipalities that support us on the "small" 
> level as sustaining member.
>
> All is based on a voluntary contribution anyway and you are not 
> required to be a member in order to use QGIS.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andreas
>
> Am 16.04.20 um 02:45 schrieb 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> <mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, 15 April 2020 1:47 PM
>     *To:* Iain at jcis.net.au <mailto:Iain at jcis.net.au>;
>     qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org <mailto: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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