Hi Everyone The subject of funding and sponsors came up a few times recently.
I think FFmpeg needs a clear guideline on this matter. To avoid
confusion, to avoid disagreements and to ensure community members
can point potential sponsors in an aggreed direction without hesitation.
My suggestion would be:
- The FFmpeg project should actively seek sponsors and funding.
- The money would be used for FFmpeg (Maintenance, Development, Infra,
Testing, Travel, Research, ...)
- A fair selection process shall be used by the FFmpeg Community to select
what the money is used for, which maximizes FFmpegs future.
- The money would also be used to hire / employ FFmpeg Developers fulltime or
whatever the preferrance of each Developer is.
- Work / employment shall be preferrentially be given to FFmpeg Developers /
FFmpeg community members.
This preferrance for "FFmpeg Developers / FFmpeg community members" shall
be the only preferrance.
Outside that preferrance, a fair selection process shall be used by the
General Assembly which
only maximizes FFmpegs future.
- Goals are
* to provide secure full time employment for every major FFmpeg
contributor, who wants to have that.
* to accelerate growth and improve quality
suggestions ?
should we vote on this and then add it to web or docs ?
thx
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