That is very interesting - I didn't realize the Inkscape committee was against paid development.
I'm working on the donations page design right now - what should I put on it? Seeing as the "bounty" idea appears to be inappropriate... Would a list of sponsors and individual donors/supporters be acceptable, or best avoided too? Would it be useful to have some kind of graphical representation of how much the project receives (this might be more useful for targets), and how the donations are used?
Are financial contributions even important, and does the development team want donations? If so, please tell me how you would like to use them. I did see on the current website that it's mostly used to help cover the costs of getting developers together at conferences - do you guys ever get together informally too? Do you ever spend donations on hardware for development?
Or do the developers have Amazon wishlists or equivalents? I'm sure I'm not the only person who would happily buy an Inkscape developer a beer! (Not that you can buy those on Amazon.) I would love to encourage other users to show their appreciation somehow (some people don't have time for support, translations, testing, etc).
Cheers, Hinerangi Courtenay
On Mar 13, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 3/13/11, Teto wrote:
I agree, except that this money could be used by extra-programmers (means not the usual ones) hired just for a particular task.
Except Inkscape committee is dead against paid development.