From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ffbox0-bg.mplayerhq.hu (ffbox0-bg.ffmpeg.org [79.124.17.100]) by master.gitmailbox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B5647DB1 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:45:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.1.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ffbox0-bg.mplayerhq.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C6AA68CAC7; Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:45:31 +0300 (EEST) Received: from relay9-d.mail.gandi.net (relay9-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.199]) by ffbox0-bg.mplayerhq.hu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C66AF68C280 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:45:24 +0300 (EEST) Received: by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E7641FF806 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:45:23 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 17:45:23 +0200 From: Michael Niedermayer To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches Message-ID: <20231026154523.GI3543730@pb2> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-GND-Sasl: michael@niedermayer.cc Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI) X-BeenThere: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: FFmpeg development discussions and patches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2666953716198986710==" Errors-To: ffmpeg-devel-bounces@ffmpeg.org Sender: "ffmpeg-devel" Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: --===============2666953716198986710== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CdtBYX9KhhjTJJgv" Content-Disposition: inline --CdtBYX9KhhjTJJgv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all Many developers no longer live with their parents. The subject of financial sustainability has come up many times and also increasingly each year This is financial sustainability Plan A (SPI) ATM SPI has like 150k $, we do not activly seek donations, we do not curren= tly use SPI money to fund any development. SPI money is ultimately controlled by the FFmpeg community and everything is transparent and public. 1. We should fund some FFmpeg development with SPI-FFmpeg money 2. We should activly seek more donations for SPI-FFmpeg To help 2. we should favor flashy, cool development that can bring in more donations How much we can fund with donations over SPI is hard to predict ... So what can you do ? * If you have some flashy FFmpeg project you want to work on with a cost of between 5-15k $ then propose it on the mailing list, make yourself ready = for some paperwork complexities and some public debate as thats the first tim= e we try this, there will be extra issues likely. And once the community appro= ves it and stefano with you double checks with SPI if we will be able to fund= it. Then you can start working on it * Propose some news entry for our homepage, some tweet, anything else that = is intended to increase awareness of the possibility, use and need of donati= ons If you do neither, then dont complain about money. SPI atm is a bit a chick= en and egg problem. Theres not that much money in SPI so people are hestitant = to ask for any. And as we dont use most the money theres no need to ask for mo= re or companies (or people) to donate more. Break the cycle and do something! <------ Thanks --=20 Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB "You are 36 times more likely to die in a bathtub than at the hands of a terrorist. Also, you are 2.5 times more likely to become a president and 2 times more likely to become an astronaut, than to die in a terrorist attack." -- Thoughty2 --CdtBYX9KhhjTJJgv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABEIAB0WIQSf8hKLFH72cwut8TNhHseHBAsPqwUCZTqJjwAKCRBhHseHBAsP q/tQAKCPVj5w8KwAEGVcFsZiGMBle3QOrwCcDCRIYiqhIBnrlLAS9YIucE/8RBI= =H2tF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CdtBYX9KhhjTJJgv-- --===============2666953716198986710== 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 https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-request@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". --===============2666953716198986710==--