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They could have run Kickstarter campaign like Krita did. Surely it would allow to hire more people in the team. But seems they don't want that for some unknown
by xvilka 8y ago
They could have run Kickstarter campaign like Krita did. Surely it would allow to hire more people in the team. But seems they don't want that for some unknown reason.
- prokoudine 8y agoThe 'unknown' reason is very well known and public for a long time: https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#arent-you-interested-in-doing-paid-development-of-gimp-via-crowdfunding https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#arent-you-interested-...
- xvilka 8y agoYou can make a campaign to hire full-time developers from the outside then. It is just less money available for personal donations rather using collective campaign for one organization. See Krita as an example.
- prokoudine 8y ago> You can make a campaign to hire full-time developers from the outside then. No, we can't. Managing a campaign and its outcome is a full-time job. Should we first campaign to fund the campaign management? But then we need to campaign to campaign to manage campaign. And so on.