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no-senders; approved; loop; banned-address; header-match-ffmpeg-devel.ffmpeg.org-0; header-match-ffmpeg-devel.ffmpeg.org-1; header-match-ffmpeg-devel.ffmpeg.org-2; header-match-ffmpeg-devel.ffmpeg.org-3; emergency; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] Re: [POLL][VOTE] Sponsors & Funding List-Id: FFmpeg development discussions and patches Archived-At: Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: From: Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel Cc: Michael Niedermayer Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0784357664074772408==" Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: --===============0784357664074772408== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bHpL1uLxB3M+sTD+" Content-Disposition: inline --bHpL1uLxB3M+sTD+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 02:55:16PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-de= vel wrote: > Hi all >=20 > As suggested in the thread with similar subject, here is the vote. > Please reply with a "Yes" or "No" to cast your vote. > Vote ends in 7 days. All members of the GA can vote >=20 >=20 > "Yes" > - The FFmpeg project should actively seek sponsors and funding. > - The money will be used for FFmpeg and the FFmpeg community. (Maintenan= ce, Development, Infra, Testing, Travel, Research, ...) > - The money would also be used to hire / employ / contract FFmpeg Contri= butors fulltime or whatever the preferrance of each Contributor 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 > - 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 FFmpeg community will be the decission maker about these funds. > - The FFmpeg community will, at any time be able to change the process o= f how these decission are made by public consensus. > - In absence of privacy concerns, decissions will be made by public cons= ensus amongth the commuity, or if that fails, > public vote of the GA members requireing a 2/3 majority to release fun= ds 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 co= nsider founding our own FFmpeg foundation. >=20 > "No" > - leave things as they are >=20 >=20 > Some Notes: > Employing people is complex as it requires compliance to local regula= tions. > Thus it should be expected that for employing developers, we will lik= ely > 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 Countr= y X > which then employs the developer and SPI would pay that company. The number of people voting was a bit disappointing but the result is an unanimous "Yes" thx [...] --=20 Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopp= ed=20 leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or conclud= ed=20 you do not care. 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