Hi, On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 5:11 PM, FallenLegend <[email protected]> wrote: > I support this idea but I don't think we should limit ourselves to this > feature.
About this, my first idea was that I saw many crowdfunding which were a "do-all" kind of funding, but in the end, after huge successful funding, well people would still wait for real news or advancement in the software 1 or 2 years later. I have nothing against big do-all projects, and I think that's a good thing to do too, but I would love more user control, not just a "I take all your money and leave" kind of campaign from some team. I think making 1 feature at a time is already a nice start to do things where users can actually see what happens and control. I will consider a bigger project if this one succeeds. > All the long term goals the team has could easily be solved with hiring more > personal. There is no "personal" in GIMP. Nobody is employed by GIMP right now. And actually GIMP is not even an official structure. The only official entity which supports GIMP is the GNOME foundation, but I feel they act more as a proxy for all official matters (donations, events, volunteer reimbursements, website and bug tracking infrastructure...). GIMP is far from the only project under their protection, and probably far from the priority. We are all "volunteers" here, for the time being. I don't say that could never happen. And seriously I would love to be this one guy paid full-time to work on GIMP and do all the nitty features everyone wants. Nevertheles if really people want this, well a good way to prove it is to actually fund these kind of features! Because everyone sees these also as a test to see if crowdfunding would really work for bigger projects. I mean right now, people say so, but in reality, there has been nearly no funding for my simple and small proposal so far. How can we trust that if we make a big proposal, people would pay for it, or we would just waste more time? Note also that even if I make a huge do-them-all proposal, I would still have to work on things on a one-per-one basis (because I still have only a single brain, however how much money is paid! :p), so that would not change that much. In any case, if ever my crowdfunding works, I will consider make some bigger plan proposal for a next crowdfunding, and see if t is possible to get backed up officially by the rest of the GIMP team and GNOME (maybe I would even be happy to sign a contract with the GNOME foundation to be an official community-employee, so that we ensure the money is well used). But right now, there is still to be seen if people really want to pay for it, or just say they would and wait for the neighbour to do so. > I am all for more features specifically for painters :) Good so I hope you are for this feature and would pay for it! :p Thanks for the interest anyway! Jehan >>Hello, >> >>Lately several people have asked why we won't do crowdfunding for >>GIMP. The general position of GIMP developers towards this proposition >>is that the core developers usually have "day jobs", thus won't raise >>money this way. >>Well I am one of them and I don't have a day job right now, thus I >>have decided to give it a try. >> >>During the Libre Graphics Meeting in Madrid, the painter who was with >>me tried the mirror mode during Krita workshop. And I thought it would >>be a nice addition to the GIMP. Apparently I am not alone because I >>see regularly messages asking for it. >> >>So I started a test implementation to see how it would go. And it >>works well. See the demo: http://youtu.be/osSiETyae5c >> >>But now if I want it in GIMP, this is where it will really take time, >>to make a nice and clean implementation and a well-thought internal >>design. So I start a crowdfunding initiative. >>Have a look there with all the explanation: >>http://girinstud.io/news/2013/09/crowdfunding-proposal-for-symmetrymirror-painting-in-gimp/ >> >>And if you like it, please fund me and spread the word: >>http://funding.openinitiative.com/funding/1578/ >>Thanks! >> >>Jehan > > -- > FallenLegend (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: [email protected] > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: [email protected] List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
