Re: [Gimp-user] Funding a Microsoft developer

2013-04-03 Thread Daniel
A very good idea.  I cannot contribute much, but if someone were to put
the effort together and a paypal link, I would be happy to kick in what
I could.


On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 13:38 -0400, Steve Kinney wrote:
 Hey,
 
 I wonder if it would be a good thing to do a Kickstarter type of
 campaign, to raise money to hire a developer to work on integrating
 the GIMP with Microsoft platforms, or to put bounties on solutions
 for specific bugs/issues?
 
 There's a LOT of GIMP users running Microsoft operating systems and
 if they tossed in an average of just a few dollars each...
 
 Just a thought.
 
 :o)
 
 Steve
 
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Re: [Gimp-user] Funding a Microsoft developer

2013-04-03 Thread Bastian Hougaard
Hi Steve,

On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 13:38 -0400, Steve Kinney wrote:
 Hey,
 
 I wonder if it would be a good thing to do a Kickstarter type of
 campaign, to raise money to hire a developer to work on integrating
 the GIMP with Microsoft platforms, or to put bounties on solutions
 for specific bugs/issues?

Have you heard of the website called FreedomSponsors? I think it is an
excellent place to put bounties on solutions for bugs, issues and
features. There is currently three bugs open for GIMP with bounties on:
http://www.freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/?s=project_id=130project_name=GIMP

If a developer were up for working on integrating GIMP with Microsoft
platforms, he could propose to work on a bug over at freedomsponsors
similar to how Nicolas Robidoux did:

http://www.freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/78/add-other-samplers-that-properly-reduce-downsample-and-warp-images

Just thought I wanted to chime in about that. :-)

Bastian 

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Re: [Gimp-user] Funding a Microsoft developer

2013-04-03 Thread Simon Budig
Steve Kinney (ad...@pilobilus.net) wrote:
 I wonder if it would be a good thing to do a Kickstarter type of
 campaign, to raise money to hire a developer to work on integrating
 the GIMP with Microsoft platforms, or to put bounties on solutions
 for specific bugs/issues?

We had this discussion some time ago and decided against hiring
developers. In an ideal world it is supposed to be fun to work on the
Gimp, we want that people work on the Gimp because they are actually
fond of it and they identify with the project.

Also we don't want to have a hierarchical structure based on money. It
also would put us into the weird position of delegating lower tasks to
the paid slave - not really something I'd look forward to...

There is a notable exception: The Google Summer of Code is a great thing
to reach out to new people: It is helping students that want to
contribute to free software while also earning some money. The mentoring
project receives some funds and - more importantly - might gain new
developers sticking to the project. So if there is a student with some
windows experience and wants to tackle some windows specific warts, I'm
all for making it a GSoC project.

 There's a LOT of GIMP users running Microsoft operating systems and
 if they tossed in an average of just a few dollars each...

They really help better by donating this money either to the Gimp
project or to e.g. the libre graphics meeting, which is the coolest
conference I attend. Gimp is a project distributed worldwide, which
sometimes makes communication hard and development a lonely thing - LGM
is a huge motivation boost there.

Note that the Gimp project funds attendees to LGM, this also is true for
windows developers - we need to lure them into open source development
:)

Bye,
Simon
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