[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] STF 2025

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi all

Before this is forgotten again, better start some dicsussion too early than too late

I propose that if we have the oppertunity again next year to receive a grant
from STF. That we use it to fund:

* Paul to work on FFmpeg full time. My idea here is that he can work on whatever
  he likes in FFmpeg (so its not full time employment for specific work but
  simply full time employment for him to work on whatever he likes in FFmpeg any
  way he likes) Paul is the 2nd largest contributor to FFmpeg (git shortlog -s -n)

* Fund administrative / maintainance work (one example is the mailman upgrade that is needed
  with the next OS upgrade on one of our servers (this is not as trivial as one might
  expect). Another example here may be some git related tools if we find something that
  theres a broad consensus about.

* Fund maintaince on the bug tracker, try to reproduce bugs, ask users to provide
  reproduceable cases, close bugs still unreproduceable, ...
  ATM we have over 2000 "new" bugs that are not even marked as open

* Fund professional real live presence on multimedia / FOSS / buisness related
  events. we already refund individuals but i think we are lacking on the organizational
  side. We should also have on these events at least one person who can awnser developer/user
  questions and someone who can awnser buisness questions (on buisness related events).
  Also we need some eye catching things there, a big screen/projector that plays some
  real time filtered version from a camera. Or maybe have more people remotely be available
  from the FFmpeg team through real time streaming (as in, if someone wants to be on some event
  but cant physically go there, we could put a notebook on the table facing visitors showing
  something like a video chat. Also we need more cute girls on these events, everything i hear
  its 100% male geeks/hackers. Also a "24/7" realtime stream from any booth would be nice

Thanks

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