On 6/13/08, Christian Thaeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some Months ago when someone offered to donate some RAM, I answered that > I have sufficient hardware for myself. Now it it struck me and my laptop > got broken a few weeks ago, this is quite depressing for me since I > relied on working on the laptop alot and have problems to finance a new > one soon.
I'm really sorry to hear about your laptop and hope we can all pitch in and get you back in action as soon as possible. One of the documentation team on another project I'm involved with had their laptop stolen last year and we were able to get him a new one very quickly. Someone set up a pledge on http://www.pledgebank.com and it seemed to work out well. Admittedly, it was a very large project with many people making a living out of the software so the situation was a bit different but I can see a lot of people have an interest in furthering the development of Lumiera so I am optomistic. Personally speaking, I feel that the amount of help and support you have given to people on #cinelerra alone would justify the request, but the fact that you are working hard on Lumiera means that the sooner we can get you a very nice laptop to work with the better it will be for all of us! It has often been discussed that there must be ways to get a source of financial support for Lumiera and other free software required for making movies. For example: registering as a charity to accept donations, or to form a business with shareholders, or to see if there is an umbrella organisation that could take care of the paperwork and tax etc. and make it easy for people to contribute in this way. I am still at a loss for a solution but perhaps others have experience in this area, or would be willing to try something out. Other things that have been discussed in the past are the possibilities of getting movie makers to use some of their funding to support the project since they may have more access to funding (although, I do understand no-one ever has money to spare on a movie budget). >1. Would it be viable when developers (or otherwise involved people) > just speak up when they have some struggle to get some hardware (or > even more essential needs!) financed? It would be great if we had some funds that you could just draw from in a situation like this, but this is tricky and there's always the risk of getting involved in political discussions etc. I hope the other developers, documentation writers and supporters for Cinelerra/Lumiera would also feel welcome to ask for support where necessary and won't feel left out of this. Maybe we should try to do some generic fund raising and share it out amongst the people who need it? Hopefully we can help get you a laptop really soon though. > 2. Is there anyone out there who would give donations? It would be a pleasure. How would you like to accept donations? -- goibhniu _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
