On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:52 AM, sam tygier wrote:
> Sven Neumann wrote:
>>
>> Having someone work on GIMP full-time is something entirely different
>> than paying for features. It has my full support. But I am afraid that
>> it will be extremely difficult to find someone capable and willing to d
Sven Neumann wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 08:18 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote:
>
>> Personally I would be _encouraged_ to further contribute to GIMP if GIMP
>> had someone working full time. Having someone working full time on GIMP
>> would mean that the development speed of GIMP would signifi
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:50:17 +0100
Sven Neumann wrote:
> We most urgently need a developer interested in improving color
> management. If we have such a developer, we can certainly use such
> devices.
I don't think that I have enough C knowledge here (or specifically, GTK
knowledge), but I see
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Sven Neumann wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 20:31 +0200, Alexia Death wrote:
>
>> That makes these devices 11 years old and they are amazing. The one
>> you sent me works fine, and with little hackery I even managed to make
>> it hotpluggable using a serial adapter
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 20:31 +0200, Alexia Death wrote:
> That makes these devices 11 years old and they are amazing. The one
> you sent me works fine, and with little hackery I even managed to make
> it hotpluggable using a serial adapter and some custom python to
> introduce it to my X when it ap
On Friday 15 January 2010, SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote:
> On 2010-01-15 18:02, Alexia Death wrote:
> > Well, I didn't know it was an option, and my interest in such device
> > is not limited to just developing gimp, so I've been plotting to get
> > one on my own... But it would help a lot if me and someo
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Sven Neumann wrote:
> As far as I know the tablet that Mitch owns is a Wacom I (with serial
> connection). It's the same model that I sent you last year. These
> tablets were donated by Wacom in 1999 for the first GIMP developer
> conference.
That makes these devic
* Sven Neumann [01-15-10 13:18]:
>
> As far as I know the tablet that Mitch owns is a Wacom I (with serial
> connection). It's the same model that I sent you last year. These
> tablets were donated by Wacom in 1999 for the first GIMP developer
> conference.
>
> It might make sense to ask Wacom i
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 19:17 +0200, Alexia Death wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Martin Nordholts wrote:
> > Oh you also proposed to buy one for me or mitch too so we can debug together
> > etc
> >
> > Well I don't think I'll use it very much, it's better to use that money for
> > somethi
Sven Neumann wrote:
> Having someone work on GIMP full-time is something entirely different
> than paying for features. It has my full support.
Ok then it seems like we're on the same page, I am also skeptical about
bounties for features, there's just to much potential problems with that.
/ Ma
On 2010-01-15 18:02, Alexia Death wrote:
> Well, I didn't know it was an option, and my interest in such device
> is not limited to just developing gimp, so I've been plotting to get
> one on my own... But it would help a lot if me and someone else, like
> Martin or Mitch had the same set, for test
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Martin Nordholts wrote:
> Oh you also proposed to buy one for me or mitch too so we can debug together
> etc
>
> Well I don't think I'll use it very much, it's better to use that money for
> something else
Well, my goal in that was mostly to save debugging time. T
Martin Nordholts wrote:
>> Well, I didn't know it was an option, and my interest in such device
>> is not limited to just developing gimp, so I've been plotting to get
>> one on my own... But it would help a lot if me and someone else, like
>> Martin or Mitch had the same set, for testing etc purpo
Alexia Death wrote:
>> Why aren't you just asking if you can have this hardware paid from the
>> GIMP account? We are getting several hundred dollars of donations per
>> week and can easily afford buying developers the hardware they need.
>
> Well, I didn't know it was an option, and my interest i
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 11:59 +0200, Alexia Death wrote:
>
>> If Gimp aims to be a professional tool, then support for things like
>> decent graphics tablets and extras needs to be there and for it to be
>> there developers need access t
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 08:18 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote:
> Personally I would be _encouraged_ to further contribute to GIMP if GIMP
> had someone working full time. Having someone working full time on GIMP
> would mean that the development speed of GIMP would significantly
> increase, and it
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 11:35 +0100, Jon Senior wrote:
> I'm not exactly a contributing developer, but I do have access to a
> Spider and calibrated screens. Are there outstanding issues regarding
> colour management? I might be able to provide some help here.
We most urgently need a developer inte
Hi,
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 11:59 +0200, Alexia Death wrote:
> If Gimp aims to be a professional tool, then support for things like
> decent graphics tablets and extras needs to be there and for it to be
> there developers need access to the tools. I'm currently trying to
> scrounge up enough to ge
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Martin Nordholts wrote:
> We often point out to people that GIMP is lacking contributors. Maybe
> the lack of contributors is a side effect of how the project currently
> is run with regards to money?
About three weeks ago someone told me that he wanted to donate
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:59:13 +0200
Alexia Death wrote:
> Another thing that developers should at least try to use is screen
> calibration hardware and color managed process. I personally have
> never done this bacause of the cost of owning one of the spider
> devices.
I'm not exactly a contributi
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 08:18 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote:
>
>> Personally I would be _encouraged_ to further contribute to GIMP if
>> GIMP had someone working full time.
>
> I think it depends on the person...
>
> On the other hand, I can a
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 08:18 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote:
> Personally I would be _encouraged_ to further contribute to GIMP if
> GIMP had someone working full time.
I think it depends on the person...
On the other hand, I can also imagine incentives in the form of
socks :-), or graphics tablet
Sven Neumann wrote:
> I don't think that donations can speed up GIMP development. On the
> contrary, paying some developers for their work is more likely going to
> demotivate others.
Since I think this is an important issue and since we are not that many
developers, we don't need to guess, we ca
On 1/15/10, bart wrote:
>> I don't think that donations can speed up GIMP development. On the
>> contrary, paying some developers for their work is more likely going to
>> demotivate others.
>
> Don't know why this shouldn't work with the GIMP projekt.
You can't just extrapolate experience of one
> I don't think that donations can speed up GIMP development. On the
> contrary, paying some developers for their work is more likely going to
> demotivate others.
Don't know why this shouldn't work with the GIMP projekt. This works well
for TYPO3 and Blender well too.
I would help to organize s
On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 21:38 +, Sam Tygier wrote:
> There has recently been much discussion on how long it will take to
> finish gimp 2.8, and whether donations could speed this up.
>
> Krita (KDE's image manipulation program) recently asked its users for
> €3000 to sponsor one of their old G
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