Fundraising in KDE

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dijous, 24 de setembre de 2020, a les 11:42:16 CEST, Nicolas Fella va escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> I would be cautious about creating a system that allows targeted
> donations for specific features/requests. 
> I don't want the e.V. to be in
> a position where work is done/prioritized because it brings in money.

That's one of the reasons why you're part of KDE e.V. To make sure the money is spent correctly :)

> Not having this kind of money-driven-development is a great strength of
> community-driven open source projects. 

That's not going away. We already have proof of it. There has always been people doing KDE paid development and it has never been a huge issue from my almost 20 years of memory collaborating with the project.

> We have a list of possible
> providers for such requests already (disclosure: I work for a company on
> that list).

I disagree, https://ev.kde.org/consultants/ is for "i want to implement X, how much it will cost? 20K€? Fine here you have, now do it for me" not for "i have 100€ a year, please let me pitch in with more people so we can hire a developer to work full time on improving Qt for KDE needs".

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers
> 
> Nico
> 
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