Paid PR Queue maintainer funding drive

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Draft message from Tim’s email:

Dear QGIS Users. We are so excited to bring you this new release of QGIS, packed with amazing features and capabilities. Many of the new features you see in QGIS are paid for by individuals and companies who want to support the QGIS platform by improving its feature set. QGIS is a labour of love, built by a team of dedicated and highly skilled contributors who support and maintain, the core project. QGIS funds a minimal part of the work they do through paid bug fixing sprints, our grants programme and funded documentation writing. However, the vast majority of work that goes into maintaining the core QGIS project is unfunded and relies on the dedication and commitment of our volunteer corps. With the growth of the project, these volunteers are under increasing time pressure to manage all the issues, review all the incoming features and support our many users.

The QGIS Project Steering Committee is launching a new funding campaign to support our first full time, fully funded QGIS project maintainer. We have a fund-raising target of EUR 150,000 to make this happen. This money will be used to firstly ensure that someone can review all of the amazing new features and fixes that are submitted to QGIS through our Pull Request queue. Secondly, any additional available time from our paid maintainer will be devoted to fixing bugs with a focus on improving the stability of QGIS on all platforms, which many of you have told us is your number one priority! If you are able to support our campaign, please click the link below!

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Use a subscription-based system? E.g. Patereon, Stripe, or similar
Need to communicate specific goals
Documentation Drive
Bugfixing Drive
TODO Tim: draft next version
TODO Tim & Andreas: Make a landing page for the funding campaign with subscription and campaign sign up
Something like https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LandingPage&country=IT&uselang=it&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_source=donate&utm_campaign=C13_it.wikipedia.org