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charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: On Tue, 9 Sept 2025, 09:19 Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel, < ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote: > Hi Everyone > > The subject of funding and sponsors came up a few times recently. > > 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. > I don't disagree ffmpeg needs funding. My suggestion would be: > - The FFmpeg project should actively seek sponsors and funding. > - The money would be used for FFmpeg (Maintenance, Development, Infra, > Testing, Travel, Research, ...) > - A fair selection process shall be used by the FFmpeg Community to > select what the money is used for, which maximizes FFmpegs future. > - The money would also be used to hire / employ FFmpeg Developers > fulltime or whatever the preferrance of each Developer is. > - Work / employment shall be preferrentially be given to FFmpeg > Developers / FFmpeg community members. > What work though? Who decides this? Would sponsors really want their funds going on SDR or game codecs. This preferrance for "FFmpeg Developers / FFmpeg community members" > shall 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 > contributor, who wants to have that. > A goal without a practical way of getting there. Big companies want their name associated with a project without insanity (paranoid conspiracy theories largely coming from one person about people in the project, other companies, the CIA etc). Kieran Kieran > _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list -- ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org To unsubscribe send an email to ffmpeg-devel-leave@ffmpeg.org