Out of curiosity would they be willing to sponsor a server to host lets say a new lmms website forums etc? Including a bug tracker like phabricator which has alot of cool features such as code review and much more.
Regards Jonathan On Wednesday 15 January 2014 14:58:37 Tobiasz Karoń wrote: > I've just met with a friend of mine named sirmacik, who is running a > newly-founded Non-Government-Organisation known as Fundacja Wolna Kultura ( > http://wolnakultura.pl). > It's main goals are to support opensource-based culture and society: > artists and developers, also to increase the idea of Creative Commons > awerness among the people. > > Around April this year, they'll be ready to help us out with: > · collecting and spending funds; > · running accountancy (fully public); > · project management; > · handling the project in terms of hiring developers and keeping everyone > informed. > > Also sirmacik and I discussed a few new ways to move the LMMS development > further: > · Writing an open letter (as developers and community members) for Blender > Foundation regarding us needing their help in terms of GUI redesign and > mechanics (they may help us with knowledge and coders!). It also can be a > widely spread public event which could help us gather more publicity > (connected with good press release); > · FWK (Fundacja Wolna Kultura) would help us put the project for Google > Summer of Code (they have proper connections there); > · We discussed handling distributed developers and community conferences > and meeting (also live YouTube streaming is possible); > · Implementing a script language for writing GUI and add-ons - we picked > Python as the best option (Blender devs like it + many FLOSS projects use > it). We also discussed LUA and GUILE as alternatives; > · We talked about dividing the application into Core and Add-Ons - a bit > like Blender does - it could allow users to have lighter of fully-featured > environment in a few clicks; > · sirmacik also has capabilities to help us a lot with marketing and public > relation of the project. > > More details about sirmacik and his foundation to follow in two days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list LMMS-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
