[scribus-dev] Money questions

[Louis Desjardins]

2012/3/24 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>

> On 03/24/2012 11:10 AM, Louis Desjardins wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Two money questions:
>>
>> 1. Can you provide asap a rough but close estimate of the sponsoring
>> needs for travel to and from Vienna.
>>
>> 2. What do we do with the plan about gathering money for the Scribus
>> Project?
>>
>> Some comments:
>>
>> Our only corporate sponsor is Google for 2012. Basically, we're counting
>> more and more on the community to gather the necessary budget that will
>> allow LGM to sponsor the travel of the devs. For years now, GIMP team is
>> counting on the money they gather all year round to sponsor their
>> developers at LGM. They ask us nothing and they even offer to help with
>> money. What about Scribus? I believe that with over a million download
>> per year as a steady number we could try to gather anything from 5 to
>> 10K per year (this is not meant as a top  limit, actually!). What do you
>> think?
>>
>
> Perhaps we should schedule a meeting in Vienna to discuss this, while
> inviting pre-meeting comment from those who are not going to attend.
> Although Franz is the godfather of Scribus, and Peter is the docfather, it
> doesn't seem we've ever had an administrative consciousness outside of a
> bunch of individual opinions.
>

Let's schedule this meeting!

Louis

>
> Greg
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