[Kdenlive-devel] Kdenlive Funding structure - paying developers feature by feature

Tue Dec 3 19:00:50 UTC 2013

Money can't do everything ;-)
It appears that none of the past contributors is available to work on it
at the moment, even for paid hours?

And other potential contributors (like me) can get involved just for the
pleasure to feel useful to others, to defend the free software cause or
whatever.
I would feel like usurper beeing paid for very amateur programming
skills, and can't justify time taken over professional or personal life.
Lastly I would not find it fair regarding all the voluntary work JBM did
provide (I guess it was not his day job looking at the time and days he
used to commit his changes).

But don't misinterpret my thoughts: I wouldn't blame anybody taking the
job but rather thank him/her, if we find someone to hire for the tasks
we need? (or a company taking the project lead?)

And sorry again if my tactless reflections might hurt...

Le 03/12/2013 17:59, Anna Morris a écrit :
> If we could define what needed fixing and break it down into smaller
> goals then Open Funding would be an ideal platform to fund this.
>
> In fact, it would extremely well because funding does not need to be
> achieved all at once, but in stages as you go along, even on a bug by
> bug basis. This means that work can start sooner than if funding tried
> to raise enough for everything all at once.
>
> Is this breakdown into smaller tasks something you/someone could help
with?
>
> I am really worried about kdenlive to be honest. My livelihood very much
> depends on it, and it seems to be in a bad way right now. I would love
> to get a funding campaign going to fix the old gall up a bit!
>
> Best
>
> Anna
>
> On 03/12/13 16:47, Christ-Jan Wijtmans wrote:
>> As i understand it currently KDEnlive was under a refactoring/rewrite
>> so the code is currently broken. I havent looked at the branches and
>> if it can be continued from a branch. This project seems very nice
>> however in this case i feel like it needs some rewrites before
>> features can be added. How does this project deal with rewrites as
>> obviously they are not added features? I hope someone more
>> knowledgeable about kdenlive can give more information though.
>>
>>
>>
>> Live long and prosper,
>>
>> Christ-Jan Wijtmans
>> https://github.com/cjwijtmans
>> http://facebook.com/cj.wijtmans
>> http://twitter.com/cjwijtmans
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Anna Morris <gingerling at inventati.org
>> <mailto:gingerling at inventati.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     Firstly, I am a big Kdenlive fan. I co-authored a manual
>>     http://www.flossmanuals.net/how-to-use-video-editing-software/ on the
>>     subject last year and use kdenlive for my many video projects (so
I am
>>     not spam, lol)
>>
>>     I am working with Open Funding http://funding.openinitiative.com/ to
>>     assist developers to get crowd funding for Free Software. Open
Funding
>>     works on a feature by feature basis. For example the core-team at
gimp
>>     are funding a symmetry painting feature at the moment
>>     http://funding.openinitiative.com/funding/1578/
>>
>>     I am not sure how or if Kdenlive is funded at the moment, but I would
>>     very much like to assist any developer(s) who has an idea for a new
>>     feature to earn a little money to build it. Also, if you don't
>>     need/want
>>     to earn money for your work, you could always donate the funds to the
>>     project in general.
>>
>>     This small scale funding is a great way for users (like myself) to
>>     give
>>     back, which they are often eager to do, but in a way which is very
>>     concrete, forward thinking and achievable. Its much simpler to set up
>>     than a large kickstarter campaign and is more deeply routed in the
>>     function of the software.
>>
>>     Please let me know what you think and if you are interested in
getting
>>     funding this way, either as a group of core-developers or, if not,
>>     as an
>>     individual developer.
>>
>>     Thanks
>>
>>     Anna Morris
>>
>>
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