Hi,
Thanks Jonathan and others for your feedback.
It is done - see
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/commit/bdcf0e51cff5caaaa90051c9a01f6b7beb3759dd
and will appear with the next nightly website update.
Background: I guess this wording comes from the fact that we were trying
to get non-profit status back then (about 3-4 years) and the term
"donation" sounded more acceptable to us for tax authorities to accept
non-profit status. Meanwhile the request for non-profit status was
rejected anyway and it is also clear that any services around
"education" in Switzerland aren't subject to VAT taxation anyway.
This denial of non-profit status by the Swiss (Zurich)-based tax
authorities doesn't change our behavior. We, as QGIS.ORG, still behave
and act as like we would be a non-profit - this is also written down in
our charter. In our country and province of our domicile, in
Zurich/Switzerland, all open source foundations and associations in
general can't get non-profit status. And even if we would get it, it
would mean an awful lot of restrictions - e.g. we couldn't pay
developers for bug fixing, etc.
Hope this clarifies a bit why this wording ended up like this in the
beginning (and apparently was never corrected).
Andreas
On 2020-07-17 12:03, Jonathan Moules wrote:
+1
"certification fee" makes more sense.
On 2020-07-17 10:01, Ben Hur Pintor wrote:
+1 to Andreas' proposal as well.
I also use the term "certification fee" when advertising training courses or charging clients.
All the best,
Ben Hur
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 16:09 Ujaval Gandhi <[email protected]> wrote:
+1 to Andreas's suggestion. A certification fee is more appropriate.
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On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 12:55 PM Andreas Neumann <[email protected]> wrote:
probably something like
... required to pay a EUR20 certification fee to the QGIS project.
I agree - a required donation seems a bit odd.
On 2020-07-17 08:59, Luigi Pirelli wrote:
what's your proposal?
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On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 20:59, Jonathan Moules <[email protected]> wrote: On the certification page:
https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/certification.html I see this:
"If approved you are required to make a EUR20 donation to the QGIS project
for each certificate."
Is the word use "donation" intentional there, or merely a typo? Because
it's a bit of an oxymoron to have a "required" "donation".
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