Hi Michael -
It is 100% voluntary if a company wants to pay for a sustaining
membership. Pay what you feel is appropriate. Or pay a one-time donation.
As an example : The Danish QGIS Usergroup (of which I'm a board member)
pays as a "Large Member" each year. We represent a number of
municipalities and companies that using is QGIS. Every institution pays
around 300 Euro /year for membership in the Danish User Group.
A large part of the usergroup's income goes directly to the
international QGIS organisation. The rest is used for QGIS activities
related directly to Denmark.
Some of our members also supports qgis.org directly or by supporting
QGIS development.
The point is: Every organisation supports QGIS with the amount of money
they find is appropriate. Or by other method, like directly supporting
the development of new functionality.
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Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards
Bo Victor Thomsen
Den 16-04-2020 kl. 02:45 skrev Michael Dufty:
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).
Is it reasonable to interpret number of employees as GIS users rather
than total employees?
I see my local council is on there as small, and I’m sure they have
more than 10 employees.
Obviously no limits apply if we go with donations without membership.
*Michael Dufty*
*From:*Anita Graser <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Wednesday, 15 April 2020 1:47 PM
*To:* [email protected]; [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS in the commercial world
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
<https://qgis.org/en/site/about/sustaining_members.html>
Regards,
Anita
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