2012/2/23 David Rylander <rylle...@gmail.com>: > http://sfconservancy.org/ > > "The Software Freedom Conservancy is a not-for-profit organization that > helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source > Software (FLOSS) projects. Conservancy provides a non-profit home and > infrastructure for FLOSS projects. This allows FLOSS developers to focus > on what they do best — writing and improving FLOSS for the general > public — while Conservancy takes care of the projects' needs that do not > relate directly to software development and documentation." > > Would SFC be helpful to Synfig? Instead of creating a foundation > ourselves that do all economics, donations etc. SFC can do all these > with Synfig under it's wings. They can also be a head organisation > owning domain names, trademarks etc. (All optional). Lifting the > responsibility of these things from the shoulders of individuals. > > Several large projects is already in their organisation like, Amarok, > Inkscape, Git, Samba, Wine etc. which I think gives credit to them as > very serious and stable. > > Applications is considered twice a year. We just missed the feb 1. > deadline. Next one is sept. 1st. > > I think a membership will lift a burden from (some more than others) > developers and give stability to Synfig. > > What do you think? > -David
I think this is a very good idea. K. -- http://morevnaproject.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Synfig-devl mailing list Synfig-devl@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synfig-devl
