[FFmpeg-devel] Update on your FLOSS/fund application

[FFmpeg-devel] Update on your FLOSS/fund application

[FLOSS Fund via ffmpeg-devel]

Dear *FFmpeg*

We are pleased to inform you that *FFmpeg* is being awarded *100,000 USD*
by FLOSS/fund to support its continued development. We deeply appreciate
the work you do and its impact, and are happy to be a small part of
something that all of us derive immense value from.

You can read more about our second tranche, learnings from this year, and
future plans on our anniversary blog post
<https://floss.fund/blog/second-tranche-2025-anniversary/>. Please find the
list of projects that we supported in the first year here
<https://floss.fund/projects/2025/>. From our experience with the previous
tranche, we anticipate taking anywhere between 1-3 months to complete the
disbursal process owing to complexities in cross-border payments and
paperwork. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause and
appreciate your patience as we work through the process.

The payment will be made out of India, where we are headquartered. The
following modes of payment are available:

   - *Wire Transfer*: Please note that as per Indian regulations, we will
   require digitally signed copies of a few documents, like Tax Residency
   Certificate, Project Development Agreement, an invoice, etc. We’ll share
   detailed instructions and copies of the documents required if you opt for a
   wire transfer.
   - *GitHub Sponsors*: If you prefer to receive sponsorship via the GitHub
   Sponsors Program, please ensure that the project is enabled for one-time
   sponsorships. We are currently in discussions with the GitHub team to
   streamline this process, and we will keep you posted about the progress.
   You can read about this in our anniversary blog post
   <https://floss.fund/blog/second-tranche-2025-anniversary/>.

Kindly let us know your preferred mode of payment by replying to this
e-mail.

*Public announcements*

If you have a public communications channel or a mailing list, we kindly
request you to consider an announcement of FLOSS/fund’s support with a link
to the floss.fund website. We are relying on word-of-mouth and referrals to
enable projects in the FOSS ecosystem to discover the fund and apply. Here
<https://floss.fund/faq/#what-is-expected-from-a-project-that-receives-funding>
are embeddable badges, in case you would like to add one to your project's
website.

 If you have any questions, please feel free to write to us.

Thank you.
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[FFmpeg-devel] Re: Update on your FLOSS/fund application

[Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel]

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Hi everyone

It seems neither Thilo nor Pierre have time to look into this.
Does someone else have time ? (id like to work on the 8.0.1 release
and backports and many other things)

thx

On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 11:45:40AM +0530, FLOSS Fund via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> Dear *FFmpeg*
> 
> We are pleased to inform you that *FFmpeg* is being awarded *100,000 USD*
> by FLOSS/fund to support its continued development. We deeply appreciate
> the work you do and its impact, and are happy to be a small part of
> something that all of us derive immense value from.
> 
> You can read more about our second tranche, learnings from this year, and
> future plans on our anniversary blog post
> <https://floss.fund/blog/second-tranche-2025-anniversary/>. Please find the
> list of projects that we supported in the first year here
> <https://floss.fund/projects/2025/>. From our experience with the previous
> tranche, we anticipate taking anywhere between 1-3 months to complete the
> disbursal process owing to complexities in cross-border payments and
> paperwork. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause and
> appreciate your patience as we work through the process.
> 
> The payment will be made out of India, where we are headquartered. The
> following modes of payment are available:
> 
>    - *Wire Transfer*: Please note that as per Indian regulations, we will
>    require digitally signed copies of a few documents, like Tax Residency
>    Certificate, Project Development Agreement, an invoice, etc. We’ll share
>    detailed instructions and copies of the documents required if you opt for a
>    wire transfer.
>    - *GitHub Sponsors*: If you prefer to receive sponsorship via the GitHub
>    Sponsors Program, please ensure that the project is enabled for one-time
>    sponsorships. We are currently in discussions with the GitHub team to
>    streamline this process, and we will keep you posted about the progress.
>    You can read about this in our anniversary blog post
>    <https://floss.fund/blog/second-tranche-2025-anniversary/>.
> 
> Kindly let us know your preferred mode of payment by replying to this
> e-mail.
> 
> *Public announcements*
> 
> If you have a public communications channel or a mailing list, we kindly
> request you to consider an announcement of FLOSS/fund’s support with a link
> to the floss.fund website. We are relying on word-of-mouth and referrals to
> enable projects in the FOSS ecosystem to discover the fund and apply. Here
> <https://floss.fund/faq/#what-is-expected-from-a-project-that-receives-funding>
> are embeddable badges, in case you would like to add one to your project's
> website.
> 
>  If you have any questions, please feel free to write to us.
> 
> Thank you.
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[FFmpeg-devel] Re: Update on your FLOSS/fund application

[Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2025, 05:04 Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel, <
ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> It seems neither Thilo nor Pierre have time to look into this.
> Does someone else have time ? (id like to work on the 8.0.1 release
> and backports and many other things)
>
> thx
>

I could do this if I am given an SPI contact.

Kieran

>
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[FFmpeg-devel] Re: Update on your FLOSS/fund application

[Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel]

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Hi Kieran

On Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 01:56:49PM +0000, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2025, 05:04 Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel, <
> ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > It seems neither Thilo nor Pierre have time to look into this.
> > Does someone else have time ? (id like to work on the 8.0.1 release
> > and backports and many other things)
> >
> > thx
> >
> 
> I could do this if I am given an SPI contact.

I think the SPI contact needs to be handled by Stefano and me otherwise we will
have confusion and delays. Ill try to get that done today.

But theres a lot more. We need some sort of wiki page, call for people
sending project proposals, I mean we want that money to be used for something.
Or at least i assume we will try to handle this somewhat similar to STF.
I need to read through this, maybe there are differences

Also we should allocate some of this to fund merging forks. This is probably
the most critical thing together with security that lacks funding.

thx

PS: You dropped Thilo from CC.

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[FFmpeg-devel] Re: Update on your FLOSS/fund application

[Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel]

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Hi everyone

On Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 04:12:00PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> Hi Kieran
> 
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 01:56:49PM +0000, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> > On Sun, 16 Nov 2025, 05:04 Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel, <
> > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi everyone
> > >
> > > It seems neither Thilo nor Pierre have time to look into this.
> > > Does someone else have time ? (id like to work on the 8.0.1 release
> > > and backports and many other things)
> > >
> > > thx
> > >
> > 
> > I could do this if I am given an SPI contact.
> 
> I think the SPI contact needs to be handled by Stefano and me otherwise we will
> have confusion and delays. Ill try to get that done today.

ive sent the floss.fund mail to SPI asking for advice how to proceed

As said, (on the assumtation that this all works) we will roughly need
(this is not a hard exact list, just what i think we need)

0. someone should read through all the documents and webpage and summarize how this
   differs from STF
1. public announcement (which they ask for IIUC)
2. wiki page where people can add proposals
3. call for proposals on social media
4. maybe discussions of proposals on ML, if theres something to discuss
5. someone needs to collect the proposals and send to SPI (i would be happy if pierre does this again)
6. once SPI replies with any requirements, contracts, ... people who want to do the work will need to sign them

thx

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[FFmpeg-devel] Re: Update on your FLOSS/fund application

[Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2025, 15:12 Michael Niedermayer, <michael@niedermayer.cc>
wrote:

>
> But theres a lot more. We need some sort of wiki page, call for people
> sending project proposals, I mean we want that money to be used for
> something.
> Or at least i assume we will try to handle this somewhat similar to STF.
> I need to read through this, maybe there are differences
>

To my knowledge there are no requirements for us to do this. It's a
donation.

Also we should allocate some of this to fund merging forks.
>

Sigh...

Kieran

>
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[FFmpeg-devel] Re: Update on your FLOSS/fund application

[Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel]

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On Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 04:00:38PM +0000, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2025, 15:12 Michael Niedermayer, <michael@niedermayer.cc>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > But theres a lot more. We need some sort of wiki page, call for people
> > sending project proposals, I mean we want that money to be used for
> > something.
> > Or at least i assume we will try to handle this somewhat similar to STF.
> > I need to read through this, maybe there are differences
> >
> 
> To my knowledge there are no requirements for us to do this. It's a
> donation.

then i misunderstood it

thx

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[FFmpeg-devel] Re: Update on your FLOSS/fund application

[ff--- via ffmpeg-devel]

On 2025-11-16 07:59, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 04:12:00PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer via 
> ffmpeg-devel wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 01:56:49PM +0000, Kieran Kunhya via 
>> ffmpeg-devel wrote:
>> > On Sun, 16 Nov 2025, 05:04 Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel, <
>> > I could do this if I am given an SPI contact.
>> I think the SPI contact needs to be handled by Stefano and me 
>> otherwise we will
>> have confusion and delays. Ill try to get that done today.
> ive sent the floss.fund mail to SPI asking for advice how to proceed
> As said, (on the assumtation that this all works) we will roughly need
> (this is not a hard exact list, just what i think we need)

from what i looked at, floss fund is just going to wire to an account 
(our spi account). which means the spi account has to have some beefy 
documentation behind it. and SPI has to send that documentation to them.

probably what you should do is just ask spi and floss to contact each 
other to set it up. dont really need anyone to do much more else wise.

and since you and stefano are the spi contacts, its up to you two to get 
it done.

cheers
-compn
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[FFmpeg-devel] Re: Update on your FLOSS/fund application

[Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel]

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Hi

On Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 09:16:03PM -0800, ff--- via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> On 2025-11-16 07:59, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 04:12:00PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer via
> > ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 01:56:49PM +0000, Kieran Kunhya via
> > > ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 16 Nov 2025, 05:04 Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel, <
> > > > I could do this if I am given an SPI contact.
> > > I think the SPI contact needs to be handled by Stefano and me
> > > otherwise we will
> > > have confusion and delays. Ill try to get that done today.
> > ive sent the floss.fund mail to SPI asking for advice how to proceed
> > As said, (on the assumtation that this all works) we will roughly need
> > (this is not a hard exact list, just what i think we need)
> 
> from what i looked at, floss fund is just going to wire to an account (our
> spi account). which means the spi account has to have some beefy
> documentation behind it. and SPI has to send that documentation to them.
> 
> probably what you should do is just ask spi and floss to contact each other
> to set it up. dont really need anyone to do much more else wise.
> 
> and since you and stefano are the spi contacts, its up to you two to get it
> done.

Yes, we and SPI are working on it, I initially misunderstood this

thx

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