On 13 Oct 2003 11:55:27 +0200, Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Daniel Rogers <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > As was discussed at Gimp Con 2003 (and before, frankly) I am in the > > process of incorporating "The GIMP Foundation" as a non-profit > > organization devoted to supporting the gimp. > > Thanks a lot for organizing this. > > > Here are some of the ideas I am currently mulling over regarding TGF: > > [...] > > This sounds a lot more like an attempt to bring WilberWorks back to > life than what I was imaging from such a foundation. IMO it should be > a lot less commercially oriented but maybe I am only getting a wrong > impression from looking at this list. [...] Sorry if this sounds like a "me too" but I would like to second this. After watching your (Daniel) presentation at GimpCon2003 and the discussion that followed, I thought that the main roles of the GIMP Foundation would be: - to be a non-profit organization that can collect donations without trying to sell anything by itself; - to serve as a contact point for conferences and events interested in GIMP presentations. Selling GIMP tee-shirts, manuals, CDs and other stuff may be interesting, but I would prefer to have this done by a company that would be a separate legal entity. Otherwise, there could be some conflicts between a commercial GIMP Foundation and the companies that are already selling GIMP stuff (ftgimp, macgimp/wingimp, xdarwin and probably several others). I would like the GIMP Foundation to be seen as "neutral" and clearly non-commercial, so that the companies who are selling GIMP CDs could make a donation to the foundation without feeling that they are giving money to a potential competitor. -Raphaël
