On 09/21/2014 05:35 PM, Dan Wilcox wrote:
Well, time & money are intertwined.

This is why I was talking about a Pd foundation/organization etc that could take donations from schools, organizations, poor artists etc and roll it into bounties or development support/residences. Pd has a pretty active user base but a much much smaller developer base so it makes things a bit harder since there is essentially more pressure on these smaller numbers of developers who already have limited time as it is.

I know a "foundation" is a huge word to throw around but it could literally be one place in the world, probably support by some university, that hosts people to work on aspects of Pd. We've already had people stepping up to help pay for airfare for the last few Pd meetups / patching circles etc, so that could be something similar.

Anyway, it's totally *doable* it always come back to who will do it and when.

I'd be happy to help with something like this.

However, your description of the user/developer ratio doesn't ring true to me.  There's actually a surplus of developers and development energy-- I count two implementations of presets in the last year or two (in Pd-l2ork and the Chocolate et Coffee lib) which are in addition to however many already exist on svn and the Pd forum.

Furthermore, we've got a flag to make a Qt window pop up when starting the most recent git version of Pd-l2ork.  We'll incrementally be adding the functionality to create Qt canvas windows and draw patches in them side-by-side with a functioning tcl/tk gui.

-Jonathan