[FFmpeg-devel] Donations and what happens with them

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Stefano Sabatini
<stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> On date Monday 2011-01-24 20:33:41 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 05:07:42PM +0100, Benjamin Larsson wrote:
>> > On 01/24/2011 04:45 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> > > Hi
>> > >
>> > > But then one of the developers on my side told me he has been offered money
>> > > to work for / join the new maintainers.
>> > > From where is that money?
>> > > from our foundation it seems
>> > >
>> >
>> > I'm not aware such events. Most likely not true. But how about we fund
>> > you to keep working on your fork? I'm sure there are areas where we can
>> > find an agreement for this to happen.
>>
>> Thats an odd offer in this thread, but what amount are we talking about?
>
> BTW I believe one of the main objectives of the foundation should be
> to raise funds for sponsoring the main contributors of FFmpeg for
> working on it without the need of other incomes, and Michael was and
> is by far the most fundamental contributor to the project (even after
> the "restructuring").
>
> I hope this will be possible in the future, still waiting for the
> foundation thing to be set up.

They are set up, we have money and are funding Justin right now. Come
with fantastic ideas for projects and people to work on them and we'll
fund more (as long as there's money of course).

Ronald