Krita donation proposal

Tue Nov 16 10:49:26 GMT 2021

As much as i would like to see some of this money used to make things happen 
for Calligra, at this point it does seem like just hoarding it in case we come 
up with something magic is not really what makes the best sense... Perhaps it 
would make sense to hold back a bit of it and try and organise a sprint of 
some description after the whole current situation is a little less 
situationy, but that isn't a huge sum out of what's there.

leinir, maintainer of Calligra Gemini (which also i haven't actually touched 
code-wise in a while at this point outside of reviewing Pierre's work)

On Tuesday, 16 November 2021 10:41:47 GMT Camilla Boemann wrote:
> I'm fine with Krita and Plan taking everything. The money needs to work and
> not gather dust. And Krita seems a worthy candidate. If the donor agrees I
> don't know, but I would certainly support it.
> 
> Camilla Boemann
> Calligra Words maintainer (by name mostly)
> 
> On 16/11/2021 11.35.31, Halla Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The KDE e.V. board still sits on this money, since there's almost nothing
> happening in calligra land. Of everything that used to be Calligra, only
> Plan and Krita show activity. Kexi also seems dormant. But the board needs
> to spend that money, so what should we do?
> 
> Not that I want to be greedy, but if Calligra cannot spend it on anything,
> I'm find with taking a larger share for Krita... And is there a way to
> spend it on Plan?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Halla Rempt
> 
> On woensdag 17 oktober 2018 10:35:30 CET Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen wrote:
> > Yes, i agree with Dag. Handshake's donation does seem to have been a
> > historical congratulations type thing more than anything else, so
> > certainly
> > Krita deserves a chunk of this.
> > 
> > On Wednesday, 17 October 2018 09:31:54 BST Dag wrote:
> > > Imho, a good idea. Does not seem krita gets anything directly, maybe
> > > because it is considdered part of calligra.
> > > 
> > > ---
> > > 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-hands
> > > > hake
> > > > -foundation [2] https://www.calligra.org/krita
> > > > --
> > > > 
> > > > regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
> > > > 
> > > > KDE:
> > > > : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers,
> > > > 
> > > > translators
> > > > 
> > > > : and facilitators committed to Free Software development -
> > > > 
> > > > http://kde.org
> > > > 
> > > > KEXI:
> > > > : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
> > > > 
> > > > http://twitter.com/kexi_project https://facebook.com/kexi.project
> > > > 
> > > > Qt Certified Specialist:
> > > > : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek

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