Hello all,
When Martin brought up the idea if I wanted to do the translation to Chinese, I had to inform him that sadly, my Chinese sucks. Nor do many Chinese jump to the idea of doing anything for free. Time is precious here where students start at 8.00 and end some days at 22.00. Memorising Mao's rantings can take a lot of energy.
However, it occurred to me that we might very use sponsoring for translations and other tasks. If we would allow them to add a line of text to documents and have some sponsor page on the website, we could probably find a lot of institutes interested in sponsoring parts of the project with whatever means we would allow. The sponsor page should allow them to post a Logo, name and a short description of what part of the project they are involved in.
To my idea it would be a great idea to get more exposure on Inkscape in places where not that many people have ever heard of it and maybe even inspire some competition on obtaining sponsorship. Of course we already have a large number of largely anonymous sponsors that have build the project so far, but rather than only going for crowd surfing, we could use the power of sponsoring to get things done and get the word out that Inkscape not only exists, but actually is an option.
Already we have companies sponsoring part of the project by their own interest, which is how we end up with extensions for cutters and embroidery. True, they tend to be low profile sponsors, but I fail to see why we shouldn't embrace those that would like to be named.
What are your feelings, thoughts and objections to something like that?
Cheers,
Jelle