Update.
Marc provided a review and declined to be listed because he'd need to confirm with his job about being listed etc.
Marc suggested a change to the first paragraph:
From: "Because of the way Inkscape is developed, the main charity fund is not used to pay programmers or other contributors to make Inkscape. Instead contributors themselves must be self-funded or purely volunteers. Users who wish to help fund Inkscape contributors may contact them directly."
To: "Because of the way Inkscape is developed, the main charity fund is not used to respond to user needs, only for the general public interest. Instead contributors themselves can help users privately to achieve modifications and improvements through direct funding or even bartering."
Patrick also reviewed it from the vectors channel on rocket chat, he had a lot more issues, but suggested making sure people could be removed for violations to the code of conduct. I've added the section to the bottom:
""" # Can people be removed from being listed? The list is meant as a sort of business index of people providing services. But if contributors violate Inkscape community code of conduct they may be removed from this listing in the same way that they would be removed from other parts of the website. """
He suggested more, an issue with making sure people are actually active in the community. But I couldn't make anything line up with what you were saying ted about keeping things open and not being seen to be arbiters or guarantors. Any ideas that might suffice?
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Thu, 2021-04-15 at 18:40 +0100, C R wrote:
I think this looks great. Thanks for all the work, Doc! I like the current wording and explanations. -C
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 6:15 PM Martin Owens doctormo@geek-2.com wrote:
On Thu, 2021-04-15 at 10:29 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
Thanks for working on this Martin!
Thanks Ted for the review,
My understanding is that we can list folks that have external
funding
modes, we just have to be careful to ensure that we don't
guarantee
inclusion of work or that any work will be done at all for their money. (or that their input would be considered on a Patreon)
They
are giving their money to the person they're working with and the only relationship they have is between themselves and that person/company. By being on the list the Inkscape project isn't guaranteeing they won't be scammed.
I've added a new section based on Maren's response. It's a little more "the modifications may not end up in Inkscape" and less "you could be scammed" but both thoughts are important.
I've added your points here and expanded it with a contact us link and by adding a list of contributors looking for user funding. I've added Tav and Marc's patreons as a sample (I haven't asked them) so take this as a sample so far. This can all be controlled via the admin interface.
https://inkscape.org/support-us/fund-contributors/
Please review and let me know.
I think that any contributor to Inkscape should be able to be
listed
there (with the disclaimer above) with perhaps a couple links. We should perhaps create a sponsorship type that would be for consultancies that would allow them to be listed. I think we
could
start with a fixed amount, but if it grew it might be interesting
to
do a five percent model or something like that.
We have a sponsorship level which is for companies that let their employees work on Inkscape. Marc's employer is in this category. But I think you mean, for people who do this kind of work to push some of the money back into Inkscape's charity fund (i.e. to the SFC) right?
If we were going to create this, and I think we should, I think
we
should also do it for artists/designers. Where it could be "hire folks that use Inkscape." While perhaps not as directly
contributing
to the project (though many do) having more people making money
using
Inkscape I think only helps the economics of our situation.
I agree. A solid list of people who work with Inkscape would be good form. This could be a fourth section on the previous page "Hire designers who work with Inkscape" or as a second section of people on this page. Having them as people who contribute to Inkscape's fund would be a way to maintain a relationship, but of course would involve getting more ducks in a row with the SFC too.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
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² For the Suez, too late.
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