[FFmpeg-devel] How to manage donations / fundings

Lars Täuber lars.taeuber
Mon Aug 10 21:41:41 CEST 2009


On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:36:48 +0200 Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> On date Monday 2009-07-27 13:25:32 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:56:38AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
[...]
> > > Also there has been already a discussion on the subject:
> > > 
> > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/59834/
> > > 
> > > The main problem is that setting / organizing such things require time
> > > and expertise skills, which is what developers usually lack, that's
> > > why many FLOSS projects don't work very well with managing money:
> > > 
> > > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001158.html
> > > 
> > > An alternative solution to direcly manage the funding and all the
> > > related administration / fiscal issues would be to depend on some
> > > external organisation, for example:
> > > 
> > > http://www.spi-inc.org/
> > 
> > iam perfectly fine with spi or sflc handling these for us
> 
> SPI seems more oriented towards funding / financial administration,
> while SFLC seems more focused on legal issues, so I think SPI seems
> more indicated in this case.
> 
> I'd like to hear other people opinions, after all if we agree we can
> ask for association.
> 
> Regards.

Is there any progress on this subject?
I'd like to donate for a completion of the dirac SOC task from 2007.

Regards
Lars



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