On Sep 16 2022, at 2:41 pm, Martin Owens doctormo@gmail.com wrote:
- RedHat does use inkscape internally, and they ship Inkscape in
their distributions. Though it would be fun to try and get 10% of RHEL profits (or conversely 10% of Debian's) for the Inkscape Product tier. We could either have a specific tier for "Inkscape Distributor", redistributing inkscape is a not-significantly altered form. Or just say they should be a Small Firm level and relax the requirement to advertise the use of Inkscape. Though perhaps they'd be up for doing that if it was advertised on the Fedora website, maybe something they already do. I would recommend talking to Máirín Duffy about what Redhat might think, if they want to do repeat donations etc.
Kinda funny, I wasn't even thinking of RH as a distributor of Inkscape, more as a user in their internal design teams :-) Do you think we should handle distributors? I'm not sure that is en vogue today for desktop applications, but we could make a category for it.
- Educators, there's technically a level "we put Inkscape into the
national curriculum for our entire country", but that's really hard to quantify. Perhaps the Education Program can be that tier and we can ask national governments to contribute. (probably unlikely though given the amount of admin work needed).
That would be cool, we can probably do something custom in those cases. If it becomes a problem with too many countries using Inkscape in their national curriculum 😉
- Maker spaces are quite different. Sometimes commercial, comestimes
public, some libraries, some community centers, others are for profit memberships like a gym. So not quite the same as the educational space. Plus the graphic could be a cog shaped thing.
Hmm, I guess all the makerspaces around me are all basically non-profit community orgs, usually with a membership fee. So I'm not personally familiar with the other setups. Do you think we should distinguish between a for-profit and non-profit makerspace?
I believe this program to be more about networking and projecting a strong Inkscape ecosystem than it is about fundraising. We should be sure to emphasize that part of it as fund raising is something we really need to do, but network management is something we would benefit from being much better about.
I think we definitely need to do both. Do you think we shouldn't replace the sponsorship program then? Ted