<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hello everyone,<br><br>Boudewijn Rempt wrote:<br>> I've just returned from the notary for the first visit for founding the Krita Foundation <br><br>Great to know :-)<br><br>> I've given them the Blender Foundation goals as a template...<br><br>I am pretty sure the "Blender template" is a VERY good start to begin with :-)<br><br>Joking aside, Blender is very powerful and, particularly in these past years, it has made a big progress forward.<br><br>I am not an artist and I only use Blender as a video editor.<br>IMHO it is amazingly powerful (not to mention it is multi-platform and highly stable both on Linux and Windows 7 - 64 bit).<br>Its documentation is huge (and You-Tube is your very best friend for this area).<br><br>For every open source software I consider "professional" (LibreOffice, Firefox-Thunderbird and naturally Blender) there is
some sort of "Foundation" behind it which, more or less, supports its development.<br><br>I am aware some open source developers are a bit "skeptical" about a foundation (to say the least)...<br>Surely this is a very controversial topic :-)<br>Take for instance Gimp: its developers are *brilliant* (NO doubt about this) and the 2.8 release is very interesting in many respects.<br>Nevertheless, the Gimp development has always been pretty slow (please, don't take this as a criticism) :-(<br>In my view, these past years, most new features regarding Gimp have been developed during a Google Summer of Code by external "students" sponsored by Google.<br>If you take a look at the Gimp changelog (http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/log/) most commits are "simple" (by simple I do NOT mean easy) bug-fixing.<br>This probably as a result of their undeserved lack of manpower.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Silvio Grosso<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>--- <b>Mar
23/10/12, Boudewijn Rempt <i><boud@valdyas.org></i></b> ha scritto:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>Da: Boudewijn Rempt <boud@valdyas.org><br>Oggetto: Stichting Krita Foundation<br>A: "Krita's developers and users mailing list" <kimageshop@kde.org><br>Data: Marted́ 23 ottobre 2012, 14:32<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hi,<br><br>I've just returned from the notary for the first visit for founding the Krita Foundation (only because of Dutch laws, it's going to be officially called Stichting Krita Foundation, where Stichting == Foundation).<br><br>I've given them the Blender Foundation goals as a template:<br><br><br> To establish services for active users and developers of Krita<br><br> To maintain and improve Krita via a public accessible source code system under the GNU GPL license<br><br> To establish funding or revenue
mechanisms that serve the foundation's goals and cover the foundation's expenses<br><br> To provide individual artists and small teams with a complete, free and open source digital art creation pipeline.<br><br><br>Initially, there will be one person on the board, the founder -- that's me. I want to add two more members to the board after the foundation, and I would prefer to have at least one artist there. The board's duties are to have one yearly meeting and check the finances.<br><br>I will get the draft statutes next week so I can tweak the goals and check for weird things.<br><br>-- <br>Boudewijn Rempt<br><a href="http://www.valdyas.org" target="_blank">http://www.valdyas.org</a>, <a href="http://www.krita.org" target="_blank">http://www.krita.org</a>, <a href="http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl" target="_blank">http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>kimageshop mailing list<br><a
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