A very good idea. I cannot contribute much, but if someone were to put the effort together and a paypal link, I would be happy to kick in what I could.

On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 13:38 -0400, Steve Kinney wrote:

Hey,

I wonder if it would be a good thing to do a Kickstarter type of campaign, to raise money to hire a developer to work on integrating the GIMP with Microsoft platforms, or to put bounties on solutions for specific bugs/issues?

There's a LOT of GIMP users running Microsoft operating systems and if they tossed in an average of just a few dollars each...

Just a thought.

:o)

Steve

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Hi Steve,

On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 13:38 -0400, Steve Kinney wrote:

Hey,

I wonder if it would be a good thing to do a Kickstarter type of campaign, to raise money to hire a developer to work on integrating the GIMP with Microsoft platforms, or to put bounties on solutions for specific bugs/issues?

Have you heard of the website called FreedomSponsors? I think it is an excellent place to put bounties on solutions for bugs, issues and features. There is currently three bugs open for GIMP with bounties on: http://www.freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/?s=&project_id=130&project_name=GIMP

If a developer were up for working on integrating GIMP with Microsoft platforms, he could propose to work on a bug over at freedomsponsors similar to how Nicolas Robidoux did:

http://www.freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/78/add-other-samplers-that-properly-reduce-downsample-and-warp-images

Just thought I wanted to chime in about that. :-)

Bastian

Steve Kinney (admin@pilobilus.net) wrote:

I wonder if it would be a good thing to do a Kickstarter type of campaign, to raise money to hire a developer to work on integrating the GIMP with Microsoft platforms, or to put bounties on solutions for specific bugs/issues?

We had this discussion some time ago and decided against hiring developers. In an ideal world it is supposed to be fun to work on the Gimp, we want that people work on the Gimp because they are actually fond of it and they identify with the project.

Also we don't want to have a hierarchical structure based on money. It also would put us into the weird position of delegating "lower" tasks to the paid slave - not really something I'd look forward to...

There is a notable exception: The Google Summer of Code is a great thing to reach out to new people: It is helping students that want to contribute to free software while also earning some money. The mentoring project receives some funds and - more importantly - might gain new developers sticking to the project. So if there is a student with some windows experience and wants to tackle some windows specific warts, I'm all for making it a GSoC project.

There's a LOT of GIMP users running Microsoft operating systems and if they tossed in an average of just a few dollars each...

They really help better by donating this money either to the Gimp project or to e.g. the libre graphics meeting, which is the coolest conference I attend. Gimp is a project distributed worldwide, which sometimes makes communication hard and development a lonely thing - LGM is a huge motivation boost there.

Note that the Gimp project funds attendees to LGM, this also is true for windows developers - we need to lure them into open source development :)

Bye,
Simon

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