From kexi-devel Tue Oct 16 16:06:24 2018 From: Jaroslaw Staniek Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 16:06:24 +0000 To: kexi-devel Subject: Krita donation proposal Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kexi-devel&m=153970604516381 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--0000000000008e318f05785abe73" --0000000000008e318f05785abe73 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" 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 --0000000000008e318f05785abe73 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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 completin= g the donation process I'd like to repeat the fact that Calligra was re= cognized by the Handshake Foundation as an organization having specific ach= ievements in the FOSS world. The Foundation decided to offer the donation= =C2=A0unconditionally and independently of the KDE's one.

Unlike other &q= uot;Office" projects Calligra has no dedicated foundation so the solut= ion was to join KDE e.V. on the task around the bookkeeping and related mat= ters and to ensure transparency. It also=C2=A0felt most natural since we= 9;re KDE. So there was no decision of the KDE board or KDE community to spl= it the one fund to Calligra and the rest of KDE, there are two funds.
=

Details=

N= ow that we're around next, harder step, I'd like to share my positi= on that addresses possible question of the contributors and fans: what with= supporting Krita?

Based on what I learned from the donor the funding is ba= sed on recognition for the *entire* history of KOffice/Calligra so Krita be= ing 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 Ca= lligra applications until 2.9 version [2]. There were 10 visible Calligra a= pps, not counting variations of apps like mobile or Active and the Office E= ngine. 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 reques= ts from the Krita side. And for my understanding the idea does not limit po= ssibility of Krita or current Calligra to benefit from the "KDE" = donation, especially indirectly, e.g. through the shared infrastructure and= common development programs.

<= div class=3D"gmail_default">Common sense suggest me reasonable requirement = for supporting Calligra sub-projects: they needs to be active (have relativ= ely recent releases) with potential to growth, and activity should be suffi= ciently independent of existence of the attractive funding that was receive= d. I think Krita meets these requirements.

<= div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:monospace,monospace;font-s= ize:small">[1] https://dot.kde.org= /2018/10/15/kde-ev-receives-sizeable-donation-handshake-foundation
[2] https://www.calligra.org/krita

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regards, Jaroslaw Staniek

KDE:
: A world-wide n= etwork of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
: and facili= tators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
KEXI:
: A visual database apps b= uilder - http://call= igra.org/kexi
=C2=A0=C2=A0http://twitter.com/kexi_project=C2=A0https://facebook.com/kexi= .project
Qt Certified Specialist:
: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
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