So, again, the idea of the treasurer and a non-profit organization is a good one, paying people for coding, and especially the way that Novell does in the gnome bounty system is not so good. I would rather pay people for doing structural work, for attending to meetings, giving workshops etc.
well, doing workshops / organizing meetings is a lovely thing, but does it produce code? i mean the documentation / education problem is one thing, the development something else. also, i don't think it's a good idea to talk about workarounds for the major problems of pd, but actually trying to solve them ... (e.g. how many people seperated the gui from the dsp by using two instances of pd and how many people thought of a clean solution)
Maybe pd-graz can take over this task, they have done a faboulous job with the pd-developers conference, the next time such a conference could be partly financed by donation money and organized by the pd community in the whole.
i like the idea of having conferences / meetings ... it's a lovely thing ... but i have a few remarks on that...
- has there been any discussion about the future development during the
pd-confention, except questions to miller, presentations of externals?
- iirc the only development done was an improved macos installer and the
port of the tooltips to 0.38 ...
i think there are 4 different aspects:
- arts: commissioning pieces, realized with pd
- documentation: writing docs, giving workshops, teaching
- conferences: developer meetings
- development: writing code
i think it is important for a donor to know, how his money is used ... some donors won't be able to go to conferences in europe, because they live in new zeeland, some are not interested in funding arts, since they use pd for scientific purposes, some are not interested in reading documentation / attending workshops, since they already know, how pd works, some are not interested in development, since they have problems learning the language...
on the other hand it would be wrong, if someone thinks, he supports the "development" just by financing documentation / meetings ... so the only thing i could accept for a non-profit organization is to have these 4 sections, and letting the donor decide, which section to support...
there is one the advantage of a bounty / marketplace / whatever you call it ... the donor decides, what he supports and what he want to support ...
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