[Qgis-user] Typo? "required ... donation" for training certificates?

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi, 

Thanks Jonathan and others for your feedback. 

It is done - see
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/commit/bdcf0e51cff5caaaa90051c9a01f6b7beb3759dd
and will appear with the next nightly website update. 

Background: I guess this wording comes from the fact that we were trying
to get non-profit status back then (about 3-4 years) and the term
"donation" sounded more acceptable to us for tax authorities to accept
non-profit status. Meanwhile the request for non-profit status was
rejected anyway and it is also clear that any services around
"education" in Switzerland aren't subject to VAT taxation anyway. 

This denial of non-profit status by the Swiss (Zurich)-based tax
authorities doesn't change our behavior. We, as QGIS.ORG, still behave
and act as like we would  be a non-profit - this is also written down in
our charter. In our country and province of our domicile, in
Zurich/Switzerland, all open source foundations and associations in
general can't get non-profit status. And even if we would get it, it
would mean an awful lot of restrictions - e.g. we couldn't pay
developers for bug fixing, etc. 

Hope this clarifies a bit why this wording ended up like this in the
beginning (and apparently was never corrected). 

Andreas 

On 2020-07-17 12:03, Jonathan Moules wrote:

> +1
> "certification fee" makes more sense.
> 
> On 2020-07-17 10:01, Ben Hur Pintor wrote: 
> +1 to Andreas' proposal as well.  
> 
> I also use the term "certification fee" when advertising training courses or charging clients. 
> 
> All the best, 
> Ben Hur 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 16:09 Ujaval Gandhi <ujaval at spatialthoughts.com> wrote: 
> +1 to Andreas's suggestion. A certification fee is more appropriate.
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> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 12:55 PM Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote: 
> 
> probably something like 
> 
> ... required to pay a EUR20 certification fee to the QGIS project. 
> 
> I agree - a required donation seems a bit odd. 
> 
> On 2020-07-17 08:59, Luigi Pirelli wrote: 
> 
> what's your proposal?
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> On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 20:59, Jonathan Moules <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com> wrote: On the certification page: 
> https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/certification.html I see this:
> 
> "If approved you are required to make a EUR20 donation to the QGIS project 
> for each certificate."
> 
> Is the word use "donation" intentional there, or merely a typo? Because 
> it's a bit of an oxymoron to have a "required" "donation".
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