On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 02:05:44PM -0800, Jon Phillips wrote:
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 19:38 -0500, Eric Jonas wrote:
How is that for user response! Same day turnaround! It also helps when cool users provide mockups of what they like. There are so many ways to contribute to the project!
I have to say that I'm both very grateful and very impressed. Havethese changes been checked into CVS yet? (I'm not very skilled with cvs and not quite sure how to check myself)? Is there any way to donate to inkscape, or do the developers have amazon wishlists posted anywhere? It would be great if I and my lab could say thanks and further inkscape's development at the same time...
What lab are you at at MIT? We need to setup a donation system. Bryce or myself can funnel funds to Inkscape, as we don't have a group account setup currently.
Presently what we encourage instead of cash is contributions in kind (e.g., chip in with tutorials, documentation, code, or whatever strikes your fancy). That's the most directly effective and efficient way to show your appreciation and to help make Inkscape better.
On the other hand, if you've got money *burning* a hole in your pocket, we can certainly take it as Jon mentions, however we have not yet solidified plans for what we'd use it for, so you'd have to just trust that we'd eventually put it to some good use. ;-)
It would be great to get support from your lab and endorsement. It would also be great to know more about your research so that we can promote this on our website.
Currently, we have been thinking that we need to get donations/funding towards a windows computer and macintosh computer to do testing. So, we would have to discuss this further on the list how we would like to handle funds.
Right, plus in addition to hardware, two other ideas are subsidizing of travel costs for developers to a desktop Linux conference, or sponsoring development for file format converters (so that we could add better support to Inkscape for importing autocad, visio, and the like.)
If anyone has some time and would like to assist me in organizing any of the above ideas, the help would be most appreciated! :-)
Bryce