On 24/02/14 06:26, Gabriel Grosso wrote:
Anyone know what's the «progress» of this requests? There are
devs
actually working on some of the features?
Thanks
Hi, thanks for the reply. I started this thread aaaages ago now - nice
to see it is still going!
The idea was to encourage dev's to put features up here
http://funding.openinitiative.com/ and crowd-fund them.
An example is that one of the core gimp dev's has been having a try; he
does gimp part time and works as a paid developer on other projects the
rest of the time. In this case, the idea is for him to be able to devote
more of his time to gimp by replacing some of his paid work with
crowd-funded work - its a win/win situation really. The main problem
with the gimp project was that the developer chose a feature that was
not especially popular, so with InkScape, I thought it would be a good
idea to ask people first and to give the dev's some ideas as to which
thinks people are really excited about.
My involvement, by the way, is that of a "connector" - an idea the open
funding people are working on, where Free Software people
(users/advocates/developers etc) who have community/marketing/design
skills can help developers with presentation, videos, social media when
they want to crowd-fund a feature.
In general, I am now doing my "connector" role only within communities I
know really well. With InkScape, while there have been loads and loads
of replies from users with ideas, I have had very little response from
the developers and I don't know any of them personally. I would love it
if some of these ideas that would otherwise not get made, could get
crowd-funded into being :)
Again, do contact me if you want to have a go :)
Anna