I think that your assessment is valid for almost all FOSS software, not just Gimp. Which issues specifically would you like to see fixed with the hypothetical 1 million dollars raised?

-- Dotan Cohen

http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com

Fundraising for one big program/enviroment might be difficult - how do we agree which funcionality should be improved/fixed first?

Maybe it would be easier to accept GIMP as an ecosystem, and focus on funding plugins for certain jobs? Or maybe there is already some kind of market where we can specify what such plugin should do and hire someone to write it?

Dominik Tabisz

2013/7/7, FallenLegend :

I think that your assessment is valid for almost all FOSS software, not just Gimp. Which issues specifically would you like to see fixed with the hypothetical 1 million dollars raised?

-- Dotan Cohen

http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com

http://www.techdrivein.com/2012/12/top-5-kickstarter-crowdfunding-alternatives-opensource-software.html

(fixed link)

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Dominik Tabisz

On 07.07.2013 18:08, Dominik Tabisz wrote:

Fundraising for one big program/enviroment might be difficult - how do we agree which funcionality should be improved/fixed first?

A first step would be to have this discussion on the gimp-developer mailing list, where the current GIMP developers are available.

HTH,
Michael

Michael You're right in term of changing something in GIMP as a program itself. Not sure how open is this place for users (i don't mean how patient are You in case of next flamewar like save/export. It's rather how open would You be to questions like: what can be done to use GIMP for imposition)

What about changing/writing plugins for some special purposes? Is it matter for gimp-developer mailing list, or maybe there is already some kind of market for such services, or maybe we need such place?

2013/7/7, Michael Schumacher :

On 07.07.2013 18:08, Dominik Tabisz wrote:

Fundraising for one big program/enviroment might be difficult - how do we agree which funcionality should be improved/fixed first?

A first step would be to have this discussion on the gimp-developer mailing list, where the current GIMP developers are available.

-- HTH,
Michael
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Dominik Tabisz

On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Dominik Tabisz wrote:

Michael You're right in term of changing something in GIMP as a program itself. Not sure how open is this place for users (i don't mean how patient are You in case of next flamewar like save/export. It's rather how open would You be to questions like: what can be done to use GIMP for imposition)

Imposition? You mean like n-up printing? Why would you do that with GIMP?

What about changing/writing plugins for some special purposes? Is it matter for gimp-developer mailing list, or maybe there is already some kind of market for such services, or maybe we need such place?

My impression is that it sounds a bit like "Let's fund anything, anything via Kickstarter!" :) Please let's not try to treat crowdfunding as a silver bullet.

The general idea is that the core team already has jobs they like. A crowdfunding effort is possible for other contributors and, in fact, there was a semi-successful case with new samplers in GEGL (http://www.freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/78/add-other-samplers-that-properly-reduce-downsample-and-warp-images).

Again, as Michael stated, this should be discussed on the mailing list for developers.

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

On 8 Jul 2013 14:03, "FallenLegend" wrote:

Imposition? You mean like n-up printing? Why would you do that with GIMP?
My impression is that it sounds a bit like "Let's fund anything, anything via Kickstarter!" :) Please let's not try to treat crowdfunding as a silver bullet.

The general idea is that the core team already has jobs they like. A crowdfunding effort is possible for other contributors and, in fact, there was a semi-successful case with new samplers in GEGL (

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

Again, as Michael stated, this should be discussed on the mailing list for developers.

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

I will try to contact the developers. Hopefully they will agree.

-- FallenLegend (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________

You obviously have no idea whose email you just replied to....

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:

On 8 Jul 2013 14:03, "FallenLegend" wrote:

You obviously have no idea whose email you just replied to....

Why would FallenLegend need to know that? Relax, people can't (and shouldn't) know everything, and I wouldn't call myself a developer anyway, as opposed to Michael who also replied in the thread :)

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

On 8 Jul 2013 17:01, "Alexandre Prokoudine" wrote:

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:

On 8 Jul 2013 14:03, "FallenLegend" wrote:

You obviously have no idea whose email you just replied to....

Why would FallenLegend need to know that? Relax, people can't (and shouldn't) know everything, and I wouldn't call myself a developer anyway, as opposed to Michael who also replied in the thread :)

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

Fair enough, though I'd expect at least some familiarity with this ml prior to "hey let's do is cool thing" type posts.

FallenLegend wrote:

Thank you for your support guys. I just sent and email to the developers... wish
me luck :)!

You should subscribe to the gimp-developer list - a discussion where every other message has to be approved manually is not very efficient.

Regards, 
Michael