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If I could count on the 999 other people, Kickstarter-style, I just might.

by jkeat 9y ago

grogenaut 9y ago
Well... Set it up
- falcolas 9y ago
  He'd also need the GIMP devs to cooperate: to provide tangible feature sets with timelines, part time PR for updating and managing the Kickstarter campaign, and an part time CFO for managing the sudden influx and management of $360,000 (minus Kickstarter and the payment processor's share), dev salaries, taxes, and such. I would be curious if the GIMP dev team could reach usability parity with Photoshop on only that money. It seems a bit on the low side frankly (about a year's time of a good developer and UX designer, plus support staff).
  - masukomi 9y ago
    he could always fork it and pay for other developers if the core team didn't want to participate in this. You'd rather the core team's approval and participation, but you don't NEED it.
    - blunte 9y ago
      Call it Pimp. I would say that I'm in too, but I also need a quality Illustrator alternative that works well on Mac.
      - cacarr 9y ago
        I assume you've tried Inkscape?
      - rhaps0dy 9y ago
        To cacarr: Inkscape is not at its best in Mac. It's clunky because you have to use control instead of command, can't zoom with the trackpad, can't go fullscreen. I use it and love it and it's one of my favourite programs, but really it's better in Linux.
        grogenaut 9y ago
        A key mapping function sounds like one of them more easy things to add into a piece of software
    - falcolas 9y ago
      If you don't get their support, then that $400,000 has to go a lot further (or you have to work towards a branch reconciliation at the end of the work). Ongoing maintenance is not free.
ethanwillis 9y ago
I'm in.
e12e 9y ago
I think something more limited (like get GEGL out the door, if that isn't done yet) along the lines of the Django migrations kickstarter would be more realistic: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migrations-for-django https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-mig...

If I could count on the 999 other people, Kickstarter-style, I just might.

by jkeat 9y ago

If I could count on the 999 other people, Kickstarter-style, I just might.

grogenaut 9y ago

Well... Set it up

falcolas 9y ago
He'd also need the GIMP devs to cooperate: to provide tangible feature sets with timelines, part time PR for updating and managing the Kickstarter campaign, and an part time CFO for managing the sudden influx and management of $360,000 (minus Kickstarter and the payment processor's share), dev salaries, taxes, and such. I would be curious if the GIMP dev team could reach usability parity with Photoshop on only that money. It seems a bit on the low side frankly (about a year's time of a good developer and UX designer, plus support staff).
- masukomi 9y ago
  he could always fork it and pay for other developers if the core team didn't want to participate in this. You'd rather the core team's approval and participation, but you don't NEED it.
  - blunte 9y ago
    Call it Pimp. I would say that I'm in too, but I also need a quality Illustrator alternative that works well on Mac.
    - cacarr 9y ago
      I assume you've tried Inkscape?
    - rhaps0dy 9y ago
      To cacarr: Inkscape is not at its best in Mac. It's clunky because you have to use control instead of command, can't zoom with the trackpad, can't go fullscreen. I use it and love it and it's one of my favourite programs, but really it's better in Linux.
      - grogenaut 9y ago
        A key mapping function sounds like one of them more easy things to add into a piece of software
  - falcolas 9y ago
    If you don't get their support, then that $400,000 has to go a lot further (or you have to work towards a branch reconciliation at the end of the work). Ongoing maintenance is not free.

ethanwillis 9y ago

I'm in.

e12e 9y ago

I think something more limited (like get GEGL out the door, if that isn't done yet) along the lines of the Django migrations kickstarter would be more realistic: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migrations-for-django https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-mig...