On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 at 16:16, Ted Gould ted@gould.cx wrote:
Personally I think the biggest opportunity for Inkscape there would be to provide "certified" builds for the educational market along with support services. We've gotten many requests for those, and it's hard for us as an open source project to provide the appropriate guarantees that they require. Also, many school systems have started requiring support for all software approved for their computers (a good requirement, but again hard for us to handle as a volunteer project).
I agree with this speculative analysis. I do see some non-education partnerships are possible, but with the caveat that those partnerships have to be built and aren't freely available. Mostly I think improving trust in the productive capacity of Inkscape would encourage more commercial participation. Which I think is basically the service you're talking about here, but perhaps more speculative.
Martin,