On 3/15/11, Martin Owens wrote:
Every time Inkscape is distributed directly to users, the inkscape community/board should consider what opportunity there is to ask for either donations or other involvement/payments.
In my experience telling the committee what they should do doesn't work and probably isn't good manners either :) (Hence... :))
At the moment users don't even know it's possible to donate.
Oh, come now, not everyone ignores "Donate" menu item :)
If the user isn't giving you enough money, then calmly explain how much you think it would cost, perhaps inviting the user to start a kickstarter or some such to group fund the feature.
You are suggesting to delegate organization of a kickstarter to a user who wants to just give some money and get a feature or a fix in return. It won't work.
I'm afraid you are missing what I previously wrote: the committee is *dead* against paid development. Now, *I* am all in favour of it, but I don't make decisions.
That's something the Inkscape board probably have to resolve for themselves.
s/probably/for sure/
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org