Just a side-note: I filled in the survey and said I work in an organization of >100 employees. That is because my university has almost 800 staff. But only a max of 50 or so use QGIS regularly. On the other hand we have 3200 students of which also a proportion uses it...
In other words, don't make assumptions on actual QGIS users based on that survey question! -- Barend Köbben Senior Lecturer – ITC- University Twente PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (The Netherlands) ITC Building (Hengelosestraat 99) room 1-065 +31-(0)53 4874 253 On 16/04/2020, 08:21, "Qgis-user on behalf of Andreas Neumann" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> on behalf of [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Michael, Yes, I interpret it is the nr of employees using (Q)GIS on a regular basis within an organization. And it is based on self-declaration and there is no control about the numbers whatsoever. We have quite a nr of municipalities that support us on the "small" level as sustaining member. All is based on a voluntary contribution anyway and you are not required to be a member in order to use QGIS. Greetings, Andreas Am 16.04.20 um 02:45 schrieb 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]><mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 15 April 2020 1:47 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; [email protected]<mailto:[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 Regards, Anita _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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