Hello all,
Wrote a post on open source that also covers our meeting on 13th May. It is a summary of two discussions I had regarding open source last week.
https://medium.com/@rushabh_mehta/thoughts-on-open-source-communities-eed6fd...
Hi Rushabh
On 2017 May 14 22:13:59, Rushabh Mehta wrote:
Hello all,
Wrote a post on open source that also covers our meeting on 13th May. It is a summary of two discussions I had regarding open source last week.
https://medium.com/@rushabh_mehta/thoughts-on-open-source-communities-eed6fd...
Thank you for sharing your observation. The krita projects really needs both more developers and also more funding to keep getting better.
I would like to point out that Krita also has dozens of volunteers, so it should be noted that it is a community effort, so the bugs are fixed by community :), so the number of bugs fixed is not strictly only between the two developers. Without undermining efforts by two of them, it should be noted that volunteers also help them in fixing bugs and improving krita. And the number of bugs varies sometimes it may be only 5 sometimes it may be 200 etc. So we really can't count it :)
Just wanted to clear these things.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, the analysis is correct. I wish there was a middle path between the two models, wherein passion and money was equally abundant in OSS development.
thanks
P.S. Pardon me for shamelessly plugging this here, but if anybody is interested in donating money to Krita they can checkout this page -> https://krita.org/en/support-us/donations/
I wish there was a middle path between the two models, wherein passion and money was equally abundant in OSS development.
thanks
P.S. Pardon me for shamelessly plugging this here, but if anybody is interested in donating money to Krita they can checkout this page -> https://krita.org/en/support-us/donations/
I think this is very important. My take is that all users of Krita should be made aware that it is built by volunteers and a non profit. Kirta can also start a one time payment of say $10 to the foundation that can be activated in-app via a popup (say after 2 months of usage). Those who use actively should be able to pay a small amount to ensure development continues. I am not saying that it should be mandatory, but it could be displayed more prominently. Not many open source projects actually do this. We don't do it either, but we are definitely going to move in that direction. Ultimately a non-profit can (should) also think like a business and able to sustain itself without compromising on any of the core values.