On 05/10/2013 02:27 PM, Craig Bradney wrote: > On 10/05/13 8:24 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: >> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Sharon Villines wrote: >> >>>> That's of course, in case Scribus team thinks it's worth talking >>>> about. The last time I tried discussing it, there was zero >>>> understanding. >>> >>> So they aren't graphic designers? >>> >>> One model for open source software is to use to build a business on top of >>> it either helping >>> people fix their designs, doing templates they can then alter Or developing >>> plug-ins that >>> have Pro versions that offer subscription based services. That supports the >>> at least some >>> of the community of coders. >> >> Well, here's the thing that's typically missed: you've got to have >> human resources to claim the money. Scribus team did some paid work >> for OIF in the past, but I'm not sure if any of that was done >> full-time. Most likely, not. >> >> Teams like GIMP's, Inkscape's and Scribus's are typicaly comprised of >> developers who already have a day job and are fine with it. Of course, >> it's entirely possible to find _new_ developers for paid work -- >> Blender and Krita are among such examples. But these new developers >> don't come out of blue. Typically they are part of the comminuty for >> at least a few years. >> >> Frankly, I've no idea if anyone in the Scribus community is a >> developer willing to work on it full time. >> >> I understand how this might not look sustainable enough to you, but >> that's the way things are. >> > > > If someone wants to spend some time on a new mediawiki theme for either the > main website or the main > wiki, then we'd love to see a demo on a site somewhere. Whatever little time > we have goes into code, > not into pretty websites, so if someone does have time for the websites, then > cool. Take note, by > doing so, you are signing up for maintaining it for a bit too. > Maybe our motto should be: "Scribus - not as bad as our website would suggest!"
:) Greg
