[FFmpeg-devel] Donations and what happens with them

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Stefano Sabatini
<stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> On date Monday 2011-01-24 15:24:13 -0500, Ronald S. Bultje encoded:
>> 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).
>
> What happened of the idea of the website and of the donate button?
> (Or do we have to wait for the no-profit status approval?)

Yes, we have to wait for that. Sorry...

Ronald