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List:       calligra-devel
Subject:    Re: Krita donation proposal
From:       Halla Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2021-11-16 10:35:21
Message-ID: 1828569.eGJsNajkDb () thinkstation
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Hi,

The KDE e.V. board still sits on this money, since there's almost nothing happening \
in calligra land. Of everything that used to be Calligra, only Plan and Krita show \
activity. Kexi also seems dormant. But the board needs to spend that money, so what \
should we do? 

Not that I want to be greedy, but if Calligra cannot spend it on anything, I'm find \
with taking a larger share for Krita... And is there a way to spend it on Plan?

Cheers,

Halla Rempt

On woensdag 17 oktober 2018 10:35:30 CET Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen wrote:
> Yes, i agree with Dag. Handshake's donation does seem to have been a 
> historical congratulations type thing more than anything else, so certainly 
> Krita deserves a chunk of this.
> 
> On Wednesday, 17 October 2018 09:31:54 BST Dag wrote:
> > Imho, a good idea. Does not seem krita gets anything directly, maybe
> > because it is considdered part of calligra.
> > 
> > ---
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Dag
> > 
> > Jaroslaw Staniek skrev den 2018-10-16 18:06:
> > > Dear Calligra contributors,
> > > Congratulations again on the donation [1] and big thanks to the
> > > Handshake Foundation for recognizing Calligra!
> > > 
> > > tl;dr: I'd like to propose that 10% of the sum goes to support Krita.
> > > 
> > > Introduction
> > > 
> > > As person helping with completing the donation process I'd like to
> > > repeat the fact that Calligra was recognized by the Handshake
> > > Foundation as an organization having specific achievements in the FOSS
> > > world. The Foundation decided to offer the donation unconditionally
> > > and independently of the KDE's one.
> > > 
> > > Unlike other "Office" projects Calligra has no dedicated foundation so
> > > the solution was to join KDE e.V. on the task around the bookkeeping
> > > and related matters and to ensure transparency. It also felt most
> > > natural since we're KDE. So there was no decision of the KDE board or
> > > KDE community to split the one fund to Calligra and the rest of KDE,
> > > there are two funds.
> > > 
> > > Details
> > > 
> > > Now that we're around next, harder step, I'd like to share my position
> > > that addresses possible question of the contributors and fans: what
> > > with supporting Krita?
> > > 
> > > Based on what I learned from the donor the funding is based on
> > > recognition for the *entire* history of KOffice/Calligra so Krita
> > > being important member of our family, not only can but *should* be
> > > included i nthe support. Krita has been on the same level of
> > > organization as other Calligra applications until 2.9 version [2].
> > > There were 10 visible Calligra apps, not counting variations of apps
> > > like mobile or Active and the Office Engine. So I'd like to propose
> > > that 10% of the sum goes to support Krita, formally the Krita
> > > Foundation.
> > > 
> > > Assertions
> > > 
> > > This is my idea, without any requests from the Krita side. And for my
> > > understanding the idea does not limit possibility of Krita or current
> > > Calligra to benefit from the "KDE" donation, especially indirectly,
> > > e.g. through the shared infrastructure and common development
> > > programs.
> > > 
> > > Common sense suggest me reasonable requirement for supporting Calligra
> > > sub-projects: they needs to be active (have relatively recent
> > > releases) with potential to growth, and activity should be
> > > sufficiently independent of existence of the attractive funding that
> > > was received. I think Krita meets these requirements.
> > > 
> > > [1]
> > > https://dot.kde.org/2018/10/15/kde-ev-receives-sizeable-donation-handshake
> > > -foundation [2] https://www.calligra.org/krita
> > > --
> > > 
> > > regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
> > > 
> > > KDE:
> > > > A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers,
> > > 
> > > translators
> > > 
> > > > and facilitators committed to Free Software development -
> > > 
> > > http://kde.org
> > > 
> > > KEXI:
> > > > A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
> > > > 
> > > http://twitter.com/kexi_project https://facebook.com/kexi.project
> > > 
> > > Qt Certified Specialist:
> > > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
> 
> 
> 


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