Hi, On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 16:48 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > As I said on IRC last night, in case anyone is wondering, the GIMP > currently has roughly $21,000 in the GNOME fund. Wow, I wasn't aware that that much money had piled up. > 1. Paying for the GIMP user manual to get into a publishable state, and > get it published > 2. Paying for travel/participation in certain conferences which have the > potential to bring attention, money or people to the project > 3. Paying to improve our infrastructure (reminder: there's a $500 cheque > waiting for yosh, and I'm waiting for a quote for off-site back-up) > 4. Paying for GIMP conferences and get-togethers (although I really > think we should fundraise for conferences, as I did this year and in > Kristiansand Agreed. I would also like to suggest that we consider paying people to get together for the purpose of GIMP development. That doesn't have to be a full-fledged developer conference. But if two or more people want to devote a weekend to hacking on GIMP or designing new features or user interfaces, we could consider to come up for travel expenses. I am currently talking to some usability people and user interface designers who would like to get further involved in GIMP development, especially when it comes to designing a user interface that leverages the power of GEGL. We will need to bring these people together with experienced GIMP users and I think that this would also be good use for the money that has been donated for GIMP development. Sven > > Things I don't think we should spend money on: > 1. Hardware for individual developers (computers, scanners, cameras, > tablets, etc). We should try to fundraise for this when people can fill > a specific need (working on GIMP support for a tablet, for example), but > in general buying people toys isn't useful > 2. A server - in spite of what I said in point 3 above, I think we > should be using our great contacts with GNOME, RedHat, HP, Canonical and > others to get hosting, get use of servers and services outside of XCF, > and make our sysadmin process more transparent, rather than spending > money on hardware which could be donated > 3. Sending people to any old conference - in general, if you're giving a > talk on the GIMP in a conference, we should ask the conference organiser > first, the GIMP second for sponsorship. And I don't think it's > appropriate to pay for travel from London to Boston for someone to man a > stand, even though I was prepared to do this last month. We should > instead work on building up a good group of people worldwide who can > give GIMP presentations and man GIMP stands, and make sure they're > co-ordinating. > > So that's my summary of GIMP money - there may be some opposition to > some of these things, so let's have at 'em. > > Cheers, > Dave. > _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
