Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I think it's pretty apparently that no one is really "in charge", like an organization or Linus Torvalds is.
yes, there is this community gathering around Pd and people are putting lot of work into the project; developers, patch coders, users, artists, tech/industry people, teachers, students, people who provide infrastructure, servers, rooms, hosting, web designer, people who work on tutorials, help patches...
I suppose it depends on what you define as Pd.
I am talking 1) about the "core" software (incl. different branches) and 2) about everything that is distributed with it, patches and infrastructure. not about applications coded with pd.
Miller is in charge of the core code.
I admire Miller, and what I am saying now could start a flame war: I think that does not necessarily have to be.
decision making. :D
that is the crucial point.
As for money, if people were paid to work on Pd, then people could spend solid, concentrated chunks of time on it. We could also pay people to solve the hard annoying problems, or do cross-platform quality assurance, or things like that. But for this to work, we need to have a decision structure that everyone thinks is fair. I think we should talk about this at PdCon.
If there is no "big head" then initatives like summer of code are a good alternative. encouraging people to set up their own project, funding, and being in charge of what to do with money.
In any case I support your effort, I can help by tracking down supporting texts, etc.
thnks. marius.