> > It was my argument to "sell" the sponsorship to our users. > Good to know ! I probably could have sold that to my previous employer that way. So displaying a diagram explaining the average proportion of fund destinations on the sponsoring page could be great. Could be something like that "sponsoring funds generally go to: (fake values) 60% bug fixing and infrastructure for quality, 20 % to developper meeting, 10% for documentation..."
Cheers! Régis 2017-01-27 10:29 GMT+01:00 Neumann, Andreas <a.neum...@carto.net>: > Hi Régis, > > No, we did not change our policy regarding earmarked sponsoring. > > However, looking at our expenses, bug fixing is the biggest item (usually > around 2/3 of the expenses). So you can easily claim that someones > sponsorship covers that ;-) In reality, of course, everything goes into the > pool. > > I also wrote "primarily" - that does not exclude that the money is also > used for other purposes. > > It was my argument to "sell" the sponsorship to our users. > > Andreas > > > > Just a question, up to now, sponsoring could not be oriented and I see > that gold sponsor is dedicacted to bugfixing and QA. Did we change our > policy? If yes, that needs to be wide spread, we might gain some sponsors ! > > > > Régis > > > 2017-01-27 9:27 GMT+01:00 Neumann, Andreas <a.neum...@carto.net>: > >> Hi Paolo, >> >> Here are the slides from our annual meeting: https://docs.google.c >> om/presentation/d/1d1ott7W5agb2vvUB8xSfv7x6gE843H-JLw4_ >> OWqyTmc/edit?usp=sharing >> >> However, only a small nr of slides on QGIS 3 itself. >> >> Feel free to re-use, if you need something. >> >> Andreas >> >> On 2017-01-27 08:05, Paolo Cavallini wrote: >> >> Il 27/01/2017 07:42, Nyall Dawson ha scritto: >> >> On 27 January 2017 at 16:30, Neumann, Andreas <a.neum...@carto.net> >> wrote: >> >> >> Obviously I missed a lot. I apologize. I was trying to be brief and >> concentrate on the very essential work necessary for QGIS 3. Every version >> obviously has plenty and numerous improvements, regardless if it is a >> major >> version change or not. Thanks a lot to all of the very active devs! >> >> >> Just to clarify - I wasn't offended. I'm just very aware that there's >> a lot of "lurkers" on this list who could misinterpret your email and >> think that there's only been those changes so far. Next thing we know >> it's being shared on Twitter! >> >> >> Thanks a lot Nyall, Andreas. This small incident IMHO highlights the >> need for more communication to users, so our exercise may be useful. >> Andreas, do you have slides to share? >> Of course I'll also share mine. >> All the best. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > >
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