Dear Gimp team,

We've seen that you recently left SourceForge because of their abusive practices (improper ads and software bundling) which we think are incompatible with Free Software.

I'm Ludovic, member of the VideoLAN development team and we took the exact same decision back in May this year after getting a lot of user complaints about SF ads. In April while we still were hosted at SF we started to build our own file distribution network for VLC and we're quite happy with it since. These days it sustains more than 2M downloads per day with ~50 mirrors. We achieved that using a geographic download redirector called MirrorBrain that transparently selects the best mirror for a given user. We're also working on our own redirector written in Go in order to replace Mirrorbrain because the latter does not completely suit our needs.

Since our infrastructure is fairly stable we wondered if you would be interested to use our current infrastructure to distribute Gimp binaries now that you leaved SF. Of course VideoLAN would bear all the costs for you.

As you might have seen we put an ad on our own download page to pay for the servers but to be clear: this is _not_ a requirement for you. But if you're interested we could setup a similar download page for Gimp so you can earn few bucks too.

Let us know if you are interested.

Best regards,

Ludovic Fauvet
www.videolan.org