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Krita fund has no corporate support

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Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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Post by fluoridation »

Gualdrapo wrote: post #22
masukomi wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, but in this particular case i have to ask... how many companies are actually USING Krita? My impression is that the vast majority of places that need software like that use Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator, or Affinity Photo/Designer.

That's exactly the problem. Not only that they use privative products - it's that people think about Krita as an alternative to Photoshop, as Krita is intended for digital painting rather than general raster image manipulation. Hence narrowing the target of Krita to a much smaller audience.

To an extent, it is, since a lot of artists use PS to draw/paint. For those people, Krita is indeed an alternative to PS.

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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Post by mufeedvh »

lars_francke wrote: post #7

I want someone to build this: SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) are slowly becoming ubiquitus around the world due to regulation. I want to be able to aggregate all SBOMs within my company, have a small tool that scans my machine and creates a SBOM for all Open Source tools I use (e.g. Firefox, VLC etc.), uploads that to my corporate registry. This data is then submitted to a donation aggregator which analyzes those…

I have made a simple CLI utility[0] with this purpose in mind. It scans your entire filesystem for README.md and FUNDING.yml files for a set of donation/sponsor links and tag it with the associated repo (No HTTP calls, just the assumption that most repos link their support URL in either of these files). The output is a CSV sheet containing the open-source dependencies/libraries you use in your system that accepts donations.

I have plans to expand/plug this into a donation aggregator platform like you mentioned if time permits. But if there is an existing effort for the same, I am happy to contribute. :)

[0] - https://github.com/mufeedvh/paydept

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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Post by qwerty456127 »

lars_francke wrote: post #7

I want someone to build this: SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) are slowly becoming ubiquitus around the world due to regulation. I want to be able to aggregate all SBOMs within my company, have a small tool that scans my machine and creates a SBOM for all Open Source tools I use (e.g. Firefox, VLC etc.), uploads that to my corporate registry. This data is then submitted to a donation aggregator which analyzes those…

> I want to be able to aggregate all SBOMs within my company, have a small tool that scans my machine and creates a SBOM for all Open Source tools I use (e.g. Firefox, VLC etc.), uploads that to my corporate registry.

Then your boss will come and ask WTF do you use VLC for when all the videos are on the web, also some default media player comes with your OS and by the way, you are not supposed to watch videos during your work day.

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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Post by Cerium »

kevinherron wrote: post #24
hiAndrewQuinn wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Say more about this SBOM regulation. Do you have an EN standard or something you can point me to?

It's mostly a recommendation from what I've seen so far, but it's not hard to read this as a future requirement. CISA has been pushing it, which his my why it's on my radar: https://www.cisa.gov/sbom

FDA wants electronic SBOM for future device approvals.

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/digital-health-center-ex...

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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Post by HPsquared »

lars_francke wrote: post #7

I want someone to build this: SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) are slowly becoming ubiquitus around the world due to regulation. I want to be able to aggregate all SBOMs within my company, have a small tool that scans my machine and creates a SBOM for all Open Source tools I use (e.g. Firefox, VLC etc.), uploads that to my corporate registry. This data is then submitted to a donation aggregator which analyzes those…

This ties in with the other thread about aircraft parts and the chain of custody. "Who has touched and signed off on each piece of code"

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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Post by fluoridation »

exabrial wrote: post #68

This looks like a really neat project… But on the homepage it does say, Intel is a gold corporate sponsor? Look, I don’t have a horse in the race, but that is kind of silly :)

They must have pulled out recently enough that they haven't had time to update that image. On https://fund.krita.org/ (which is where the image links to) Intel is not listed on any of the tiers.

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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Post by hoistbypetard »

raincole wrote: post #44
Kelteseth wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not Affinity Designer/Photo?

Perhaps it's a just me, but I've never met someone who uses Affinity Photo as their main digital painting app. The one artist who doesn't use PS actually uses Clip Studio Paint. I'm not saying it's not a great app (I'm not familiar with it enough to judge it). But if I'm not using an open source one, I'd use the industry standard one.

I'm not a real artist. I do programmer art for game jams, MVPs, UI mockups, etc. I always liked Affinity Designer on iPad for that. It's got nice Apple Pencil support, it was inexpensive, and it works with other file formats pretty well.

Last time they had a sale on their "Universal" bundle, which got you Mac, Windows and iPad licenses for all their products for $100, I had just received some illustrator files that I wanted to work with on my desktop and decided to go ahead and pick that up.

I now find myself using Photo and Designer instead of Krita/Gimp and Inkscape, because I'm more efficient with it as a non-expert user and because the .psd and .ai interop is better.

I need to deal with one of those two file types approximately 0.75 times a month, so the industry standard one feels eye-wateringly expensive. But a one-time $100 fee for a less frustrating experience than the open source ones offered felt worthwhile to me. And they've grown on me to the point that I pick them up when I need to make something for a game jam, not just when I need the interop.

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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Post by b112 »

jandrese wrote: post #71
phone8675309 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, but I bet if you contact them that they can give you one.

But then you have to waste a salesguy's time generating a quote for a product that I'm not likely to purchase. I hate doing that. I'm basically stealing from them just because I'm trying to shop around for the best product. I'm calling salesguys and giving all of them my information and getting several different quotes, but I'm only going to execute on one of them. And now they're spamming my inbox every time their c…

1) Use a throwaway email for that quote

2) Write up what you want, and email ALL the companies you want a quote from... CCing them all in the same email.

Make sure to indicate a close date for them "and all other possible bidders" to submit by.

Now they all know who their competitors are, AND, they know there could be other, extra competitors, AND they know to price as competitively as possible.

The sales people at the other end, and the company, will know if they want to "waste their time or not".

This works well with car dealers too. If you want the best price on a specific make and model with specific options, send to the 10 dealers in a 2 hour drive radius.

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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Post by FeepingCreature »

sho_hn wrote: post #77
q0uaur wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was also disappointed to see them using a KDE account for donations. I like KDE but i'm pretty sure there's tons of krita users who do not use kde, me included. Found that there is a Krita on liberapay, which i much prefer as platform, but who knows if that's official or not, since it's not linked on this thread's link.

KDE is a community of developers that makes various software products, including Krita - that's why there's a KDE account involved here, since KDE makes Krita :-) Many of those software projects available even for commercial systems like Windows and Mac OS, and of course the various free software environments. Those users are all equally important, so there's no conflict there.

I haven't used Windows in ages, but when I did, kate worked very well on it.

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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Post by Spivak »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #83
lars_francke wrote: post #7

I want someone to build this: SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) are slowly becoming ubiquitus around the world due to regulation. I want to be able to aggregate all SBOMs within my company, have a small tool that scans my machine and creates a SBOM for all Open Source tools I use (e.g. Firefox, VLC etc.), uploads that to my corporate registry. This data is then submitted to a donation aggregator which analyzes those…

> I want to be able to aggregate all SBOMs within my company, have a small tool that scans my machine and creates a SBOM for all Open Source tools I use (e.g. Firefox, VLC etc.), uploads that to my corporate registry. Then your boss will come and ask WTF do you use VLC for when all the videos are on the web, also some default media player comes with your OS and by the way, you are not supposed to watch videos during…

Wild, I should be more appreciative that I have Steam on my work laptop and have played Slay The Spire during deploys with management on the call commenting on my game.
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