Jamie Bullock wrote:
BTW, I also wonder if we would have a better chance if we had some kind of already established 'Foundation' - I see this word popping up a lot on the participating organisations page. I know Pd enjoys its de-centralised status, but having some kind of semi-formal 'Foundation' seems to help with things like funding applications. What do you think?
hey jamie, I think it would have been easier, but I am not sure if it would have been better. I tried to push something like that in the past, but any group you want to found would never represent all interests. I think there are different "interest groups" in the pd community, but as you said, some centralized "government"... don't think so. Today I would say, let's go for a foundation, but the foundation would not be "the" pd foundation, just "a" foundation. I think foundations help to channel and bundle efforts like summer of code, coding in general, bugfixing, documentation, tutorials, website, forums, meetings, grants, donations, art events, pd conventions... it could support a special distribution like pd-extended or a special branch like desiredata or even a special pd-application like netpd. I also think that people who want to donate money should have the possibility to do so. right now there is none. marius.