Krita donation proposal

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

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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