Hi Iain, let me add: this is not only an ethical choice, but a very practical one: the support you can give us will translate into very real improvements (especially bugfixing), so that you'll enjoy a better QGIS in the near future. All the best.
Il 15/04/20 07:47, Anita Graser ha scritto: > Dear Iain, > > Yes, QGIS has an entity: QGIS.ORG is the worldwide association of QGIS > users and developers. QGIS.ORG is constituted as a Swiss ‘association’ > (https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/charter.html) but it is > not a registered charity. > > To help support QGIS, organizations are invited to become sustaining > members of QGIS.ORG. The details of our sustaining membership program > are described in: > https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sustaining_members/sustaining_members.html > > You can also see who's already supporting QGIS: > https://qgis.org/en/site/about/sustaining_members.html > > Regards, > > Anita > > > > On 15.04.2020 02:13, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Andreas wrote >> >> >> >> /It was also good to see that 103 out of 1691 respondents represented >> an organization with >100 users. I expected a lower number in this >> category and was quite surprised./ >> >> / / >> >> This observation triggered in me a thought that as the organisation I >> work for is moving towards formal use of QGIS throughout its team – we >> should be donating to the QGIS project as that would seem to be the >> ethical thing to do. The directors would be quite open to the idea. >> There are some questions I have. >> >> >> >> Is QGIS a registered charity? >> >> >> >> Is there an entity which we can donate to? >> >> >> >> What would be a suitable donation? >> >> >> >> Most business would write off ESRI products through their accounting >> system as some form of tax deduction as it is a something you can buy. >> A donation to QGIS by business would need to be structures in some way >> to obtain a similar benefit. >> >> >> >> Has anyone any experience in this area? >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> *Dr Iain Stuart* >> >> */JCIS Consultants /* >> >> P.O. Box 2397 >> >> Burwood North >> >> NSW, 2134 >> >> >> >> (02) 9701 0191 >> (0413) 380116 (m) >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > -- Paolo Cavallini - QGIS.ORG Chair www.faunalia.eu: training, support, development on QGIS, PostGIS and more _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
