That 'scarey bozo' is developing software for you. To use. For free. And you can't spell scary.
-----Original Message----- From: Qgis-user [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Helly Sent: 22 May 2017 09:25 To: Nyall Dawson; qgis-developer; qgis-user Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Composer Rewrite and Layout Engine crowdfund – half way there! Get out of the fund-raising mode. this is not about money. Scarey bozo. On 5/21/17 8:33 PM, Nyall Dawson wrote: > Hi all, > > If you’ve been following North Road's blog posts, you’ll be aware that > we are currently running a crowd funding campaign to extend the > capabilities of QGIS’ print composer. You can read full details about > this over at the campaign page > (https://north-road.com/2017/04/26/qgis-composer-rewrite-and-layout-en > gine-crowdfund-launched/) > > The good news is that we’ve just hit the mid way point of the funds! > Many generous backers have stepped up with contributions and we’re > well on the way to reaching the funding goal. However, we still need > your help make this work a reality. > > Right now, what we need most is interested users and community members > who will reach out to their local QGIS users and seek more backing for > the campaign. We need to publicise the campaign beyond the regular > online QGIS community, to the thousands of enterprises and > organisations which rely on QGIS for their daily mapping operations. > We need community members who can get in contact with these > organisations and help convince them that investing back into the open > source software they utilise is beneficial (and often will even SAVE > them money in the long run, due to the increased productivity that > changes like our composer improvements will bring!). > > So, while social media reshares have been vital to reaching the > current stage, we now need more “hands on” helpers who will take this > on. If you know of any organisations which depend on QGIS for their > mapping outputs, now’s the time to get in contact with them directly > and advise them of this campaign! > > Thanks in advance, > Nyall > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- John Helly, University of California, San Diego / San Diego Supercomputer Center / Scripps Institution of Oceanography / 760 840 8660 mobile / http://www.sdsc.edu/~hellyj ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-3779-0603 _______________________________________________ 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
