Supporting Inkscape Development
Hello,
I have received an email from someone who is using Inkscape professionally in his company. He would like to support the Inkscape project but his company doesn't allow him to directly donate money. He is required to purchase something. He has pointed out that the Blender project (www.blender.org) has a shop where part of the proceeds go to support Blender. Is there interest in creating a similar Inkscape shop?
Tav
How would this money be managed? Do we have special needs that would be made possible if we received money? We still dont have anything similar to a Bender Foundation for Inkscape, right? We could use this money to offer coding bounties, maybe.
Juca
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> wrote:
Hello,
I have received an email from someone who is using Inkscapeprofessionally in his company. He would like to support the Inkscape project but his company doesn't allow him to directly donate money. He is required to purchase something. He has pointed out that the Blender project (www.blender.org) has a shop where part of the proceeds go to support Blender. Is there interest in creating a similar Inkscape shop?
Tav
Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today- http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel
I am under some stress right now but I might be able to help. I have U.S and Canadian Shipping addresses. I will likely travel to the U.S in the next few months to open up a U.S based bank account. I want to set up a Google check account and only U.K and U.S accounts will work. We could set up a Google checkout account for this.
I however would feel a little creepy handling all the Inkscape money. Would it be better to set up a foundation and have the foundation own the account? I believe provisions can be made for two signatures to be required for checks and so on. Would it not be better to have one of the founders set up with this account?
-Patrick
Felipe Sanches wrote:
How would this money be managed? Do we have special needs that would be made possible if we received money? We still dont have anything similar to a Bender Foundation for Inkscape, right? We could use this money to offer coding bounties, maybe.
Juca
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8... mailto:tavmjong@...8...> wrote:
Hello, I have received an email from someone who is using Inkscape professionally in his company. He would like to support the Inkscape project but his company doesn't allow him to directly donate money. He is required to purchase something. He has pointed out that the Blender project (www.blender.org <http://www.blender.org>) has a shop where part of the proceeds go to support Blender. Is there interest in creating a similar Inkscape shop? Tav ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel
Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com
Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 08:26:10AM -0500, Patrick wrote:
I am under some stress right now but I might be able to help. I have U.S and Canadian Shipping addresses. I will likely travel to the U.S in the next few months to open up a U.S based bank account. I want to set up a Google check account and only U.K and U.S accounts will work. We could set up a Google checkout account for this.
I however would feel a little creepy handling all the Inkscape money. Would it be better to set up a foundation and have the foundation own the account? I believe provisions can be made for two signatures to be required for checks and so on. Would it not be better to have one of the founders set up with this account?
I believe our financial stuff is handled by the Software Freedom Conservancy, with the Inkscape Board making decisions on how to spend that money:
The Inkscape Board "[will] oversee financial matters related to the money held and managed for us by SFC. Please see [...] http://www.inkscape.org/conservancy" (written when we were in the process of joining SFC).
According to http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/donate/, it allows donations via Google Checkout, PayPal, or of course paper cheque.
Inkscape Board mailing list: http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/inkscape-board
pjrm.
participants (4)
-
Felipe Sanches -
Patrick -
Peter Moulder -
Tavmjong Bah