>
> Getting too much money should not be a problem. These money can be put to
> a more long-term relationship with the developer. Don't let it stop you!
Not a problem for you, perhaps. That doesn't mean it is not a problem.
Too much money is a serious problem. It can put the project into a tax
burden that we aren't prepared for.
I'm not even sure of the legalities of paying a developer without having a
tax id. I'm mostly familiar with US tax law and we use 1099 form
<http://www.irs.gov/uac/Form-1099-MISC,-Miscellaneous-Income-> for these
things. I'm sure each jurisdiction handles it differently.
The problem is, we aren't an entity that is registered in any nation, state
or province to perform business transactions. This puts the tax burden on
the individual receiving the money (which is currently me). So, yes, too
much money is a problem and I'd prefer if we stop making sensational
statements like this as it lends little to the conversation. :)
- [email protected]
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Louigi Verona <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I think hiring Harry is a great idea. Harry is a top class developer with
> lots of motivation - and a great, great guy too!
>
> Getting too much money should not be a problem. These money can be put to
> a more long-term relationship with the developer. Don't let it stop you!
>
> Louigi. (wants LMMS to become a "serios DAW" and believes it is realistic!)
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Tres Finocchiaro <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I would say "we should be so lucky"!
>>
>>
>> Yeah, it sounds rather romantic to envision tens of thousands or even
>> hundreds of thousands of dollars/euros to the project's disposal, but it's
>> quite the opposite actually. Unless we have an immediate objective for
>> such money, we'd be in a very difficult spot to know how to distribute it.
>> Finding developers like Harry is a good start, but putting more and more
>> money at a single developer won't make the code generate any faster, and
>> managing these types of campaigns can send us to the moon and back.
>> (figuratively speaking... let me explain).
>>
>> For example... Musopen, started with an $11,000 USD budget, but instead
>> raised $68,000
>> <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Musopen/record-and-release-free-music-without-copyrights>
>> (2,288
>> donaters). Aaron Dunn -- the owner of Musopen -- decided to take the FOSS
>> approach at Chopin scores by making them free, but in a very high quality
>> and modern format. That was 4 years ago. Good, bad or indifferent, the
>> money he raised was enough to send him around the world looking for the
>> best of the best.... He sent this email to me last month:
>>
>>> [...]
>>> As for the music, we will begin uploading the Chopin music we have so
>>> far to the website so you, and everyone else, can begin downloading and
>>> enjoying it. As we complete the set, I will send periodic updates here, and
>>> add it to a new Chopin composer page we are adding to the site. (Preview:
>>> https://dev.musopen.org/composer/frederic-chopin/ )
>>> Apologies this has taken so long, but we are glad to be able to get
>>> everything shipped out now.
>>> Please feel free to email me if you have any questions or concerns, and
>>> thank you again for supporting this project.
>>
>>
>> So Aaron Dunn has spent the last 4 years of his life managing a
>> Kickstarter he created with an initial $11,000 budget. IIRC, Vesa's
>> estimation for funding LMMS was $8,000. Unless we have an equivalent to
>> Aaron Dunn in our community -- capable of dedicating an abundance of time
>> to this -- I feel very strongly that we have to be careful how much money
>> we accept.
>>
>> As far as this statement:
>>
>> we already have a donate button on the homepage and an account where the
>>> money goes, right?
>>
>>
>> Yes, it currently goes to [email protected] (currently this redirects to
>> my personal paypal account which was decided by Lukas and Toby).
>>
>> -Tres
>>
>>
>>
>>
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