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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Thanks Jonathan and others for your feedback.</p>
<p>It is done - see <a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/commit/bdcf0e51cff5caaaa90051c9a01f6b7beb3759dd">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/commit/bdcf0e51cff5caaaa90051c9a01f6b7beb3759dd</a> and will appear with the next nightly website update.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Hope this clarifies a bit why this wording ended up like this in the beginning (and apparently was never corrected).</p>
<p>Andreas</p>
<p id="reply-intro">On 2020-07-17 12:03, Jonathan Moules wrote:</p>
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<div class="v1moz-cite-prefix">On 2020-07-17 10:01, Ben Hur Pintor wrote:</div>
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<div dir="auto">I also use the term "certification fee" when advertising training courses or charging clients.</div>
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<p>... required to pay a €20 certification fee to the QGIS project.</p>
<p>I agree - a required donation seems a bit odd.</p>
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<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">On the certification page: <br /><a href="https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/certification.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/certification.html</a> I see this:<br /><br />"If approved you are required to make a €20 donation to the QGIS project <br />for each certificate."<br /><br />Is the word use "donation" intentional there, or merely a typo? Because <br />it's a bit of an oxymoron to have a "required" "donation".<br /><br /><br />_______________________________________________<br />Qgis-user mailing list<br /><a href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" rel="noreferrer">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br />List info: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br />Unsubscribe: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a></blockquote>
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