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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><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></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 <anitagraser@gmx.at>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 15 April 2020 1:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Iain@jcis.net.au; qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS in the commercial world<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Dear Iain,<span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></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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