Very interesting, this is worth exploring!
Obviously Godot came to the realization that they need to do something and that „this something“ has to happen outside SFC. Will be interesting to learn about their thoughts and struggles that lead to all of this. Hopefully this is something they are able and willing to share!
René
Am 10.08.2022 um 21:27 schrieb Martin Owens doctormo@gmail.com:
Dear PLC & Devel,
This is an interesting bit of news. Godot, which is a member of the Software freedom Conservancy, and one of their largest other projects have had their leadership set up a for profit company called w4 games. This is ostensibly to develop Godot further.
"Our mission is to strengthen the open source Godot ecosystem by providing companies with the commercial products and services they need." - https://w4games.com/
This is interesting to us here I believe. One of the conflicts I have personally with the SFC is how constraining and limited the SFC are for many of the things that would allow Inkscape to grow, invite commercial partners, hire developers, pay mentors, fund marketing research and design. Material things that we currently patch together with very kind support for key volunteers, but should be more properly resourced.
Has anyone here had thoughts about developing a commercial company to develop Inkscape?
I'm going to be reaching out to the new Godot business as well as a few of their contacts to see what their thoughts are and see what I can learn and if we can copy them.
Best Regards, Martin Owens _______________________________________________ Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-devel-leave@lists.inkscape.org