[FFmpeg-devel] Donations and what happens with them

[Johan Andersson]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:10:18PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Monday 2011-01-24 15:24:13 -0500, Ronald S. Bultje encoded:
> > 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).
> 
> 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?)
> 
> It was on top of my non-coding stuff high-priority todo list, just
> after the git switch, then the "thing" happened...

Maybe add a flattr button also? ( flattr.com )

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Johan Andersson