Hi all, Please read Martin's email below. " Any project based funding will have to go through the board and the Free Software Conservancy who handle those aspects of the project. " The way I understood things is: if someone is payed to work on Inkscape, that is fine and is not our business (and has happened in the past though similar funding websites, correct?). I thought it becomes our business if the funding/fundraising is brought as an official Inkscape activity, or on deciding whether code lands in trunk, or trademark/copyright issues etc. So, although (much) payed development next to unpayed volunteer development is debatable, I don't think we can (or should try to) prevent such independent funding website projects. regards, Johan On 3-12-2013 19:09, Martin Owens wrote: On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 15:31 +0000, Anna Morris wrote: Hi Anna, Any project based funding will have to go through the board and the Free Software Conservancy who handle those aspects of the project. I wonder if we can have a license to fund from the board. A sort of sanction to seek funding in a specific way under Inkscape's umbrella. It wouldn't need money to flow through SFC, but could help routing costs. In any regard; the small project pattern should make it easier to make that request. Best Regards, Martin Owens