Thanks Everyone for voting,
I left this one an extra week because of the holidays, but it looks like we have all the votes we're going to get.
I'm voting a. although it doesn't change anything in the result.
Results:
Chris - Abstention b/c of the Conflict of interest Josh - 3. Suggests a budget of 1 to 1.5k for a video Ted - 3. Find out what the vote is for Tav - 1. Martin - 1. Marc - No vote.
The result is insufficient, so we vote not to spend our budget on a release video this year.
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I do want to make a note here about the different considerations with regards to paying people.
We have a set of people who are contractors; that means they are free to provide to this project their paid work time, if the project will take it. But there is a sense of snobbery from our fully employed members of this project, who don't seem to see why people's business hours shouldn't be given away for nothing. It's disrespectful and you absolutely need to stop assuming that this is a hobby for everyone.
This project needs more than hobby time. There are too many users who depend on Inkscape for their jobs. It's time we stopped being so careless with their work tools, especially when they have gifted us their money so we can do paid work for them.
Regards, Martin Owens
On Tue, 2021-12-14 at 14:57 -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
Dear Leadership Committee,
You attention is required to vote on funding for the Inkscape 1.2 release video for 2022. As previously mentioned in our budget meeting, we have in our project a well respected video creator who makes videos for Gnome, the SFC and has made two previous Inkscape release videos and who needs funding for their work in the coming year.
Background:
We as a project benefit from having a good looking and timely release video and this funding will enable our contributor, Chris Rogers, to spend the needed time without overwork.
Videos for reference: 1.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlS0zKXsdvo 1.0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6UHXkND4Sc Gnome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae2D4aWTsXM GUADEC Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9e0cyrryRY
Conflict of Interest:
- Chris Rogers is a member of this committee and will not be able to
vote on this measure as a matter of conflict of interest.
Ballot:
- Spend $2,500 on a release video for Inkscape 1.2
- Do not spend any money on a release video
- Something else...
Thanks everyone.
Best Regards, Martin Owens _______________________________________________ Inkscape Board of Directors mailing list -- inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-board-leave@lists.inkscape.org