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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">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...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">In other words, don't make assumptions on actual QGIS users based on that survey question!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 16/04/2020, 08:21, "Qgis-user on behalf of Andreas Neumann" <<a href="mailto:qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> on behalf of
<a href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net">a.neumann@carto.net</a>> wrote:<span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Hi Michael,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>We have quite a nr of municipalities that support us on the "small" level as sustaining member.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>All is based on a voluntary contribution anyway and you are not required to be a member in order to use QGIS.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Greetings,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Andreas<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Am 16.04.20 um 02:45 schrieb Michael Dufty:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is it reasonable to interpret number of employees as GIS users rather than total employees?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I see my local council is on there as small, and I’m sure they have more than 10 employees.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Obviously no limits apply if we go with donations without membership.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Michael Dufty</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> Anita Graser
<a href="mailto:anitagraser@gmx.at"><anitagraser@gmx.at></a> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 15 April 2020 1:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:Iain@jcis.net.au">Iain@jcis.net.au</a>; <a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">
qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS in the commercial world</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Dear Iain,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Yes, QGIS has an entity: QGIS.ORG is the worldwide association of QGIS users and developers. QGIS.ORG is constituted as a Swiss ‘association’ (<a href="https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/charter.html">https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/charter.html</a>)
but it is not a registered charity.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>To help support QGIS, organizations are invited to become sustaining members of QGIS.ORG. The details of our sustaining membership program are described in:
<a href="https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sustaining_members/sustaining_members.html">
https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sustaining_members/sustaining_members.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>You can also see who's already supporting QGIS: <a href="https://qgis.org/en/site/about/sustaining_members.html">
https://qgis.org/en/site/about/sustaining_members.html</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Anita<o:p></o:p></p>
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