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boundary="YAVXguVOOi1YkRI8" Content-Disposition: inline --YAVXguVOOi1YkRI8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Everyone On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 10:19:26AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-de= vel wrote: > Hi Everyone >=20 > The subject of funding and sponsors came up a few times recently. >=20 > 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. >=20 > My suggestion would be: > - The FFmpeg project should actively seek sponsors and funding. > - The money would be used for FFmpeg (Maintenance, Development, Infra, T= esting, Travel, Research, ...) > - A fair selection process shall be used by the FFmpeg Community to sele= ct what the money is used for, which maximizes FFmpegs future. > - The money would also be used to hire / employ FFmpeg Developers fullti= me or whatever the preferrance of each Developer is. > - Work / employment shall be preferrentially be given to FFmpeg Develope= rs / FFmpeg community members. > This preferrance for "FFmpeg Developers / FFmpeg community members" s= hall be the only preferrance. > Outside that preferrance, a fair selection process shall be used by t= he General Assembly which > only maximizes FFmpegs future. > - Goals are > * to provide secure full time employment for every major FFmpeg contr= ibutor, who wants to have that. > * to accelerate growth and improve quality >=20 > suggestions ? >=20 > should we vote on this and then add it to web or docs ? Updated vote text below, in absence of suggestions to improve this further, I intend to start the vote/poll soon: "Yes" - The FFmpeg project should actively seek sponsors and funding. - The money will be used for FFmpeg and the FFmpeg community. (Maintenance= , Development, Infra, Testing, Travel, Research, ...) - The money would also be used to hire / employ / contract FFmpeg Contribu= tors fulltime or whatever the preferrance of each Contributor is. - Work / employment shall be preferrentially be given to FFmpeg Developers= / FFmpeg community members. This preferrance for "FFmpeg Developers / FFmpeg community members" sha= ll 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 contrib= utor, who wants to have that. * to accelerate growth and improve quality - A fair selection process shall be used by the FFmpeg Community to select= what the money is used for, which maximizes FFmpegs future. - The FFmpeg community will be the decission maker about these funds. - The FFmpeg community will, at any time be able to change the process of = how these decission are made by public consensus. - In absence of privacy concerns, decissions will be made by public consen= sus amongth the commuity, or if that fails, public vote of the GA members requireing a 2/3 majority to release funds= for some use. - For cases with privacy concerns, decissions will be made by consensus or= (2/3 maj) vote amongth the General Assembly. - We will use SPI to collect the funds. - If significant limitations or obstacles occur with SPI then we will cons= ider founding our own FFmpeg foundation. "No" - leave things as they are Some Notes: Employing people is complex as it requires compliance to local regulati= ons. Thus it should be expected that for employing developers, we will likely need to work together with local companies. That is if we want to employ someone in Country X we could partner with a company in Country X which then employs the developer and SPI would pay that company. thx [...] --=20 Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. -- Diogenes of Sinope --YAVXguVOOi1YkRI8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABEKAB0WIQSf8hKLFH72cwut8TNhHseHBAsPqwUCaNkT+wAKCRBhHseHBAsP q3wQAJ45EVgjdExXwhHCowWxBi5PBfnNKgCggDWXSR/sFtpzF7N/2Fe/GpxhePQ= =8kNO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YAVXguVOOi1YkRI8-- --===============2652699810289263760== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list -- ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org To unsubscribe send an email to ffmpeg-devel-leave@ffmpeg.org --===============2652699810289263760==--