On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Martin Owens wrote:
bulia estimated cost of this very project via Cairo as ca. 30K.
That would be US Dollars for a US based person working for professional wages. And not a student working from rural Africa where PPP means a livable wage is lower.
The problem here is that given the information (or, rather, lack thereof) we are talking about random money paid to random people for doing a very specific and complex project.
Let's be clear. We're talking about user donations paid to random/anonymous people at this point and the potential for blowback to the project due to people not reading/understanding the fine print. If people donate money to get a very specific set of features implemented and nothing comes to fruition, we will be the ones who feel the pain. Not the nameless people.
I'm not sure what part we have to play in getting more 3rd party developers involved in Inkscape development, the project is fairly anarchic and leaderless. Not much to tie one's boat to. Certainly not a boat full of cash for development.
There certainly is a way to organize 3rd party development. The boat ties itself to SFC. This is not a problem. Now, communication and leadership... That's entirely different thing.
I'll add that we want to get involved in the 3rd party development effectively to ensure that they have the support and information they need to be successful. As for communication and leadership, this just happens to be one of the issues of having an all volunteer project. I will say I have bigger issues about our communication issues as a community/team than about leadership. Note: I'm way more guilty of communication issues than I'd like to admit, I'm not trying to complain about others.
Cheers, Josh