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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 lars_francke »

snarfed wrote: post #58
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 is https://tidelift.com/ ! Others too, I think.

No, that's something different.

They used to be simple to understand, looking at their homepage today I have no idea what they are doing today but not what I'm looking for.

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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Post by martypitt »

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've been toying with an idea of some kind of "Spotify for OSS" kinda thing - where software authors can make their binaries available, provided you have an active subscription (with the Spotify for OSS service).

Funds are then distributed based on usage (trackable at the package registry).

The idea being corporates buy a single license per head, rather than dealing with lots of donations etc.

Probably lots of reasons it wouldn't work, but it's a fun thought experiment.

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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Post by phkahler »

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…

The more infrastructure built to fund a cause, the lower the percentage of the money actually funding people on the ground doing the work. This is often true of charities. OTOH there will be more money, and maybe some of the people actually doing the work can actually make a living doing so.

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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Post by winter_blue »

Why does it say "5 developers $ 17k / month"?

Is that 1 developer of $17k / month? (So a $204k annual salary?)

Or, does it mean 5 developers for $17k / month (i.e. a $40k annual salary?)

If it's the latter, I'm highly concerned.

Even in countries like India salaries like $60k USD (INR 50 lakh) has become a bare minimum for software engineers who are even the least bit talented...

For a really good software developer in India, you'd have to pay circa $180k USD (INR 1.5 cr), which is still a massive discount compared to the US, since in the US that person would probably make around $350k.

Where are they hiring people?

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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Post by egypturnash »

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 am a pro artist. Most of my artist friends who don't use Photoshop either use Clip Studio or Procreate. In general the Clip/Procreate split corresponds strongly to whether or not they do a lot of comics.

There's a handful of other programs that one or two of my friends use but absolutely zero of my friends have talked about using Affinity Photo.

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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Post by numpad0 »

doublerabbit wrote: post #4
scrpl wrote: post #2

That's just sad. Open Source support really needs to be normalized in corporate environment. Now it's more of an exception than the rule.

When corporate support rolls in, project tend to turn sour. Demand from the corporate entities proceed to dominate rather than voices from individual donations. Its a double edged sword.

Khara threw a bag of pachinko money in Blender's face to make the last Evangelion film work, and it was fine. I guess that was a rare occurrence that they desperately and so purely needed a tool they can hand to broke freelancers without frantically searching for keygens, but it can totally happen when incentives are right.

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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Post by egypturnash »

moelf wrote: post #14
omgmajk wrote: post #5

Curious. After all I've heard about Krita in the last few years one would think at least a couple of larger studios would use it to some extent.

the Diamond tier seems to be a studio, but yeah I totally agree.

ASIFA isn't a studio, it's a non-profit that exists to "promote and encourage the art and craft of animation", to quote their about page. Their most notable effort is putting on the yearly Annie awards.

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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Post by arp242 »

evntdrvn wrote: post #126
arp242 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

thanks.dev does this. I think I saw GitHub Sponsors also started (or will start?) doing something like this, but I'm not sure on the details off-hand. But yeah, I've argued for this a long time as well: who is going to look up 100 to 2,000 dependencies and see if they accept donations and set that up and cancel when you stop using it, add new ones when you start using them (and many will be transitive deps, so you ha…

Isn’t this kinda what Tidelift is trying to do?

I tried to sign up (as a maintainer) and I never heard back from them. Tidelift also does a lot of other stuff; my impression is they want to have a "curated list" of packages (Or something? I find Tidelift confusing) which is fine I guess, but not really a general solution.

Re: Krita fund has no corporate support

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Post by Uehreka »

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…

I think the idea here is more like “donate $1000/mo, have it distributed across the projects” rather than, say, “donate $10 to each project in the list.”
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