On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 2:59 PM C R <cajhne@gmail.com> wrote:

We have a myriad of things to use the money on too.

Agreed.

We need at least one Windows developer to make sure our releases are performant (at least up to the standards of the competition).

Agreed... We realistically need to take care of our MAC and *nix users too. We need to fund optimizations and tailoring where possible on all platforms we claim to support, imho. Logically following that, we also need people to actively optimize for ARM where possible as well.

We need to be proactive in that, and I believe that monthly meetings would help.

Let's have a first meeting to figure out changing the scope of the committee then.

I'd also like to point out that since we did have meetings that were more than just status updates, more things have been getting done, and I think it's a big reason why the project has grown.

I'm just going to kindly and gently disagree. I'd attribute it to a lucky influx of new blood. Excited people who get involved, take on more responsibility, and just have that undeniable fire in their belly is what I believe you've witnessed in terms of more things getting done. I've been with the project long enough to see just about everyone except Ted drop off over time from the original developer community. I adminned for years for GSoC and saw new blood come in and saw the ebbs and flows that came with that motivated energy. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just sharing my opinion based on a long history with the project. Energy, excitement, and the feeling of possibilities gets stuff done better than any other motivators I've ever witnessed.

IRC is still a pain for regular users.

Aren't we primarily on Rocket.chat for chat style communications these days? Given the recent exodus from freenode, IRC is definitely not what I'd recommend to people. That said, the last time I tried the rocketchat app on Android it's complete garbage compared to any proprietary alternative.

Cheers,

Josh