I think that could be a very neat partnership. I think it would be better to approach from the perspective of us helping them contribute the features they need instead of using the funds to do. We should encourage the contribution, not paying to develop features.
That being said I think an interesting approach might be to put a hackfest local to them were we could help bring up to speed new local developers who are working on the features they need. I imagine that an organization like this would have access to a building we could use and perhaps some local development grants that could help fund the event.
Ted
Yes. I vote we should accept sponsorship and use the funds to flesh out the for-print features of Inkscape to support a professional printing workflow. It's one of our biggest criticisms vs. our proprietary counterparts.
-C
On 25 Dec 2017 16:44, "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...23...> wrote:
This seems like a very interesting sponsorship proposition. It fits
with what we do and would be useful for them too.
I'm not sure what extra services they may want in terms of training and
etc. but we can probably work that out.
Merry Regards, Martin Owens
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Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 07:43:17 -0000
Subject: Platinum Sponsor Request
Dear,
I am G N Visvakumar, President of Madras Printers' and Lithographer's Association and also a part of The All India Federation of Master Printers which represents around 2,50,000 printers across India. Most of the designers and printers in India are using Coreldraw and Adobe Illustrator, Indesign softwares. Though India is a very big market the prices of the above products are very high and not affordable to the small printers of India. Moreover Adobe is now available in Cloud only and it is almost impossible for the small printers and designers. Recently Adobe and Coreldraw are harassing the designers and printers to buy licence for all the systems they use, whether they use them for designing or not. In this circumstances we are searching for softwares which is more or less equivalent or better in performance of Coreldraw and Adobe products. We are ready to support such programmes.
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An early reply is highly appreciated.
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Chennai, India.
Mobile : +91 81480 40818 / 94442 40818
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