[Ardour-Dev] donations

[schoappied]

Paul Davis wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 12:55 +0100, schoappied wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> If I subscribe to Ardour, what are the possibilities to stop this if I 
>> want? Can I stop it at any time?
>>     
>
> You can cancel it at any time, with no extra charges or consequences of
> any kind.
>
>   
>> Can you guarantee a particular development for donators? Let say for 
>> example, with this amount of money we can guarantee midi support within 
>> a period of time?
>>     
>
> I am considering opening up a new donation "category" specifically for
> MIDI. Money that is paid towards MIDI will go primarily to developers
> who work on MIDI, rather than other areas of Ardour.
>
>   
>> Is it possible to have some influence on the development of Ardour if 
>> you're a subscriber or is it possible to ask for a specific tool when 
>> gathering money with a group people?
>>     
>
> If you are a subscriber (and you mention this when communicating with
> either the mailing lists, IRC or the bug tracker), then your voice will
> be a little louder than it would otherwise be. However, please keep in
> mind that the total amount associated with subscriptions is really
> relatively small, and so although I certainly try hard to do what
> subscribers are asking for, at this time there is not enough money
> arriving from ardour users for me to feel totally bound to the
> "community will". 
>
> On the bug tracker, there is a feature that allows for sponsorship of a
> particular feature/bug. This works entirely through a "promise"
> mechanism - no money is required, you are simply promising to pay once
> the feature is completed.
>
> Again, however, keep in mind that there are very few features that can
> be added to ardour in less than 1 hour. Most feature requests require
> several hours work, quite a lot require days, and several require weeks.
> Please consider how much programmers get paid in the area that you live
> in when thinking about how much a feature should "cost".
>
> I am also considering making 5-10 sponsored features visible on the
> ardour.org website, to make more people aware of this idea.
>
> --p
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Thanks for this information.

Regards,