This seems like a very interesting sponsorship proposition. It fits with what we do and would be useful for them too.
I'm not sure what extra services they may want in terms of training and etc. but we can probably work that out.
Merry Regards, Martin Owens
Yes. I vote we should accept sponsorship and use the funds to flesh out the for-print features of Inkscape to support a professional printing workflow. It's one of our biggest criticisms vs. our proprietary counterparts.
-C
On 25 Dec 2017 16:44, "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...23...> wrote:
This seems like a very interesting sponsorship proposition. It fits with what we do and would be useful for them too.
I'm not sure what extra services they may want in terms of training and etc. but we can probably work that out.
Merry Regards, Martin Owens
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anonymous User <gnvisvakumar@...23...> To: Martin Owens <doctormo@...23...> Cc: Bcc: Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 07:43:17 -0000 Subject: Platinum Sponsor Request Dear, I am G N Visvakumar, President of Madras Printers' and Lithographer's Association and also a part of The All India Federation of Master Printers which represents around 2,50,000 printers across India. Most of the designers and printers in India are using Coreldraw and Adobe Illustrator, Indesign softwares. Though India is a very big market the prices of the above products are very high and not affordable to the small printers of India. Moreover Adobe is now available in Cloud only and it is almost impossible for the small printers and designers. Recently Adobe and Coreldraw are harassing the designers and printers to buy licence for all the systems they use, whether they use them for designing or not. In this circumstances we are searching for softwares which is more or less equivalent or better in performance of Coreldraw and Adobe products. We are ready to support such programmes. Please send us a detailed mail what you require from us Financial Support, Technical Support Training Support etc. An early reply is highly appreciated.
G.N. Visvakumar President, Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association Chennai, India. Mobile : +91 81480 40818 / 94442 40818
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I think that could be a very neat partnership. I think it would be better to approach from the perspective of us helping them contribute the features they need instead of using the funds to do. We should encourage the contribution, not paying to develop features.
That being said I think an interesting approach might be to put a hackfest local to them were we could help bring up to speed new local developers who are working on the features they need. I imagine that an organization like this would have access to a building we could use and perhaps some local development grants that could help fund the event.
Ted
On 12/25/2017 11:23 AM, C R wrote:
Yes. I vote we should accept sponsorship and use the funds to flesh out the for-print features of Inkscape to support a professional printing workflow. It's one of our biggest criticisms vs. our proprietary counterparts.
-C
On 25 Dec 2017 16:44, "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...23... mailto:doctormo@...23...> wrote:
This seems like a very interesting sponsorship proposition. It fits with what we do and would be useful for them too. I'm not sure what extra services they may want in terms of training and etc. but we can probably work that out. Merry Regards, Martin Owens ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anonymous User <gnvisvakumar@...23... <mailto:gnvisvakumar@...23...>> To: Martin Owens <doctormo@...23... <mailto:doctormo@...23...>> Cc: Bcc: Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 07:43:17 -0000 Subject: Platinum Sponsor Request Dear, I am G N Visvakumar, President of Madras Printers' and Lithographer's Association and also a part of The All India Federation of Master Printers which represents around 2,50,000 printers across India. Most of the designers and printers in India are using Coreldraw and Adobe Illustrator, Indesign softwares. Though India is a very big market the prices of the above products are very high and not affordable to the small printers of India. Moreover Adobe is now available in Cloud only and it is almost impossible for the small printers and designers. Recently Adobe and Coreldraw are harassing the designers and printers to buy licence for all the systems they use, whether they use them for designing or not. In this circumstances we are searching for softwares which is more or less equivalent or better in performance of Coreldraw and Adobe products. We are ready to support such programmes. Please send us a detailed mail what you require from us Financial Support, Technical Support Training Support etc. An early reply is highly appreciated. G.N. Visvakumar President, Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association Chennai, India. Mobile : +91 81480 40818 <tel:%2B91%2081480%2040818> / 94442 40818 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board>
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Hi,
I also think this could be a great partnership... and I also agree than contributing features is a good idea. For example, we've had lots of interest in supporting CMYK printing but lack the expertise and time to do it ourselves.
I would be very willing to head to India for a local hackfest. I've been to the northern-western parts of India twice but never to the east or south.
Tav
On Mon, 2017-12-25 at 13:11 -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
I think that could be a very neat partnership. I think it would be better to approach from the perspective of us helping them contribute the features they need instead of using the funds to do. We should encourage the contribution, not paying to develop features. That being said I think an interesting approach might be to put a hackfest local to them were we could help bring up to speed new local developers who are working on the features they need. I imagine that an organization like this would have access to a building we could use and perhaps some local development grants that could help fund the event. Ted
On 12/25/2017 11:23 AM, C R wrote:
Yes. I vote we should accept sponsorship and use the funds to flesh out the for-print features of Inkscape to support a professional printing workflow. It's one of our biggest criticisms vs. our proprietary counterparts.
-C
On 25 Dec 2017 16:44, "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...23...> wrote:
This seems like a very interesting sponsorship proposition. It fits with what we do and would be useful for them too.
I'm not sure what extra services they may want in terms of training and etc. but we can probably work that out.
Merry Regards, Martin Owens
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anonymous User <gnvisvakumar@...23...> To: Martin Owens <doctormo@...23...> Cc: Bcc: Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 07:43:17 -0000 Subject: Platinum Sponsor Request Dear, I am G N Visvakumar, President of Madras Printers' and Lithographer's Association and also a part of The All India Federation of Master Printers which represents around 2,50,000 printers across India. Most of the designers and printers in India are using Coreldraw and Adobe Illustrator, Indesign softwares. Though India is a very big market the prices of the above products are very high and not affordable to the small printers of India. Moreover Adobe is now available in Cloud only and it is almost impossible for the small printers and designers. Recently Adobe and Coreldraw are harassing the designers and printers to buy licence for all the systems they use, whether they use them for designing or not. In this circumstances we are searching for softwares which is more or less equivalent or better in performance of Coreldraw and Adobe products. We are ready to support such programmes. Please send us a detailed mail what you require from us Financial Support, Technical Support Training Support etc. An early reply is highly appreciated.
G.N. Visvakumar President, Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association Chennai, India. Mobile : +91 81480 40818 / 94442 40818
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On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 02:47:58PM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
Hi,
I also think this could be a great partnership... and I also agree than contributing features is a good idea. For example, we've had lots of interest in supporting CMYK printing but lack the expertise and time to do it ourselves.
Certainly direct feature contributions would be most convenient to us, and least organizational effort on our end. I get the feeling though that this industry trade group has little or no experience with software development, or at least not open source software development, so asking them for feature contributions might not be viable. We can certainly make the offer but it may be they'd rather interface with us at a higher level and let us tend to the development work.
One other thing to keep in mind is that while it's possible they may be interested in supporting Inkscape because they are determined to switch to open source and want to see the program improve, but it is also possible they are looking for a backup option that gives them stronger leverage in licensing negotiations. We saw that pattern often with corporate interest in Ubuntu, for instance. If that's the case, this can still be mutually beneficial but the emphasis on how to achieve the objectives may be a bit different.
I would be very willing to head to India for a local hackfest. I've been to the northern-western parts of India twice but never to the east or south.
That's good to hear, I agree having you visit on site would help secure the relationship and gain better insight into requirements and objectives. Tav, how would you feel about running a training workshop?
Bryce
Tav
On Mon, 2017-12-25 at 13:11 -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
I think that could be a very neat partnership. I think it would be better to approach from the perspective of us helping them contribute the features they need instead of using the funds to do. We should encourage the contribution, not paying to develop features. That being said I think an interesting approach might be to put a hackfest local to them were we could help bring up to speed new local developers who are working on the features they need. I imagine that an organization like this would have access to a building we could use and perhaps some local development grants that could help fund the event. Ted
On 12/25/2017 11:23 AM, C R wrote:
Yes. I vote we should accept sponsorship and use the funds to flesh out the for-print features of Inkscape to support a professional printing workflow. It's one of our biggest criticisms vs. our proprietary counterparts.
-C
On 25 Dec 2017 16:44, "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...23...> wrote:
This seems like a very interesting sponsorship proposition. It fits with what we do and would be useful for them too.
I'm not sure what extra services they may want in terms of training and etc. but we can probably work that out.
Merry Regards, Martin Owens
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anonymous User <gnvisvakumar@...23...> To: Martin Owens <doctormo@...23...> Cc: Bcc: Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 07:43:17 -0000 Subject: Platinum Sponsor Request Dear, I am G N Visvakumar, President of Madras Printers' and Lithographer's Association and also a part of The All India Federation of Master Printers which represents around 2,50,000 printers across India. Most of the designers and printers in India are using Coreldraw and Adobe Illustrator, Indesign softwares. Though India is a very big market the prices of the above products are very high and not affordable to the small printers of India. Moreover Adobe is now available in Cloud only and it is almost impossible for the small printers and designers. Recently Adobe and Coreldraw are harassing the designers and printers to buy licence for all the systems they use, whether they use them for designing or not. In this circumstances we are searching for softwares which is more or less equivalent or better in performance of Coreldraw and Adobe products. We are ready to support such programmes. Please send us a detailed mail what you require from us Financial Support, Technical Support Training Support etc. An early reply is highly appreciated.
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