Krita donation proposal

[Dag]

Imho, a good idea. Does not seem krita gets anything directly, maybe 
because it is considdered part of calligra.

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Cheers,

Dag



Jaroslaw Staniek skrev den 2018-10-16 18:06:
> Dear Calligra contributors,
> Congratulations again on the donation [1] and big thanks to the
> Handshake Foundation for recognizing Calligra!
> 
> tl;dr: I'd like to propose that 10% of the sum goes to support Krita.
> 
> Introduction
> 
> As person helping with completing the donation process I'd like to
> repeat the fact that Calligra was recognized by the Handshake
> Foundation as an organization having specific achievements in the FOSS
> world. The Foundation decided to offer the donation unconditionally
> and independently of the KDE's one.
> 
> Unlike other "Office" projects Calligra has no dedicated foundation so
> the solution was to join KDE e.V. on the task around the bookkeeping
> and related matters and to ensure transparency. It also felt most
> natural since we're KDE. So there was no decision of the KDE board or
> KDE community to split the one fund to Calligra and the rest of KDE,
> there are two funds.
> 
> Details
> 
> Now that we're around next, harder step, I'd like to share my position
> that addresses possible question of the contributors and fans: what
> with supporting Krita?
> 
> Based on what I learned from the donor the funding is based on
> recognition for the *entire* history of KOffice/Calligra so Krita
> being important member of our family, not only can but *should* be
> included i nthe support. Krita has been on the same level of
> organization as other Calligra applications until 2.9 version [2].
> There were 10 visible Calligra apps, not counting variations of apps
> like mobile or Active and the Office Engine. So I'd like to propose
> that 10% of the sum goes to support Krita, formally the Krita
> Foundation.
> 
> Assertions
> 
> This is my idea, without any requests from the Krita side. And for my
> understanding the idea does not limit possibility of Krita or current
> Calligra to benefit from the "KDE" donation, especially indirectly,
> e.g. through the shared infrastructure and common development
> programs.
> 
> Common sense suggest me reasonable requirement for supporting Calligra
> sub-projects: they needs to be active (have relatively recent
> releases) with potential to growth, and activity should be
> sufficiently independent of existence of the attractive funding that
> was received. I think Krita meets these requirements.
> 
> [1]
> https://dot.kde.org/2018/10/15/kde-ev-receives-sizeable-donation-handshake-foundation
> [2] https://www.calligra.org/krita
> --
> 
> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
> 
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