Cheng-Chia Tseng
2016-09-12 16:24:06 UTC
I am wondering if we can put Fontforge on BountySource platform (similar to
FreedomSponsors but MUCH MORE popular, and easy connected with GitHub).
BountySource is a funding platform which you can give a bounty on the issue
which you want it fixed, and BountySource Salt is a crowdfunding platform
that helps developers earn a monthly salary.
For example, I have a issue which I have been hoping it to be fixed (cidmap
parsing problem for Source Han Sans
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/1582 ). I have no much
programming knowledge and not knowing how to fix that myself. Then I can
choose to post a bounty for this issue directly, give an amount of money to
Fontforge team for them to decide the usage for one time with BountySource,
or give some fees monthly to Fontforge for the managers to handle the
usage with BountySource Salt. I have wanted to post some bounties on the
issue and give some fees monthly since I have known the platforms but
Fontforge is not on BountySource yet.
FYI, elementaryOS project is using multiple ways to collect funds for
developing, BountySource [1], BountySource Salt, Patreon [3], and Indiegogo
for specific event (such as a Hackfest in Paris) [
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/elementary-hackfest-in-paris-design#/].
They are doing much well on funding these days.
I suggest we can using BountySource and BountySource Salt to help
development of Fontforge. And maybe in the long run, funding a legal
foundation to maintain Fontforge for Fontforge like the Blender Foundation
to Blender and The Document Foundation to LibreOffice, etc.
Any thoughts on this?
1. http://blog.elementary.io/post/107662161336/fix-bugs-get-paid
2.
http://blog.elementary.io/post/118389907136/getting-salty-with-bountysource
3. https://www.patreon.com/elementary
FreedomSponsors but MUCH MORE popular, and easy connected with GitHub).
BountySource is a funding platform which you can give a bounty on the issue
which you want it fixed, and BountySource Salt is a crowdfunding platform
that helps developers earn a monthly salary.
For example, I have a issue which I have been hoping it to be fixed (cidmap
parsing problem for Source Han Sans
https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/1582 ). I have no much
programming knowledge and not knowing how to fix that myself. Then I can
choose to post a bounty for this issue directly, give an amount of money to
Fontforge team for them to decide the usage for one time with BountySource,
or give some fees monthly to Fontforge for the managers to handle the
usage with BountySource Salt. I have wanted to post some bounties on the
issue and give some fees monthly since I have known the platforms but
Fontforge is not on BountySource yet.
FYI, elementaryOS project is using multiple ways to collect funds for
developing, BountySource [1], BountySource Salt, Patreon [3], and Indiegogo
for specific event (such as a Hackfest in Paris) [
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/elementary-hackfest-in-paris-design#/].
They are doing much well on funding these days.
I suggest we can using BountySource and BountySource Salt to help
development of Fontforge. And maybe in the long run, funding a legal
foundation to maintain Fontforge for Fontforge like the Blender Foundation
to Blender and The Document Foundation to LibreOffice, etc.
Any thoughts on this?
1. http://blog.elementary.io/post/107662161336/fix-bugs-get-paid
2.
http://blog.elementary.io/post/118389907136/getting-salty-with-bountysource
3. https://www.patreon.com/elementary