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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: Improving our integration with KDE application teams, and supporting companies
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2018-08-23 22:53:46
Message-ID: 15991029.EMHKZ70GZb () xps
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El divendres, 24 d'agost de 2018, a les 0:23:29 CEST, Valorie Zimmerman va escriure:
> > > - are there any circumstances under which KDE e.V. itself should fund
> > > development, by paying developers directly or hiring companies to do so?
> 
> IMO the e.V. should be spending money to develop KDE infrastructure --
> the website, both developer and user documentation, and our hardware
> and the sysadmins who care for it. In addition, we need Promo (which
> we now have, and paid and volunteer people happily work together),
> sprints and other meetings, which again I think could use paid staff
> and volunteers working together.

That is unfair for us poor people that want to get a feature implemented by paying.

If you're a rich person (or a company/university/goverment) you can go to a company \
and say "here 10K€ implement this".

But obviously i don't have 10K€ to spend, but maybe i could convince 1000 people to \
pitch in 10€, but no company is going to play this game.

For me, this leaves the KDE eV as the ideal place this would happen (yes, there's \
other places that would be useful for grouping the money, but all those take a \
percentage cut that i'd prefer noone gets or if a cut has to be taken let the KDE eV \
take it).

Cheers,
  Albert


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