[ardour-users] Ardour seeks new sponsors

[John Emmas]

I'm more surprised that they ever got involved in the first place.  Aren't 
they also involved with a commercial DAW (WaveFrame) ?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Boggs" <c.boggs at gmail.com>
To: <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>; <ardour-users at lists.ardour.org>
Sent: 12 January 2007 14:46
Subject: Re: [ardour-users] Ardour seeks new sponsors


> Augh, this is teh suck!  Conflict of interest??  I guess Ardour was 
> becoming
> competition for SSL in some way?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ardour-users-bounces at lists.ardour.org
> [mailto:ardour-users-bounces at lists.ardour.org] On Behalf Of Paul Davis
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 8:21 AM
> To: ardour-users at lists.ardour.org
> Subject: [ardour-users] Ardour seeks new sponsors
>
> Please feel to redistribute as appropriate.
>
> NEWS
> ----
>
> Ardour is looking for new project sponsors after our major contributor,
> Solid State Logic informed us that a conflict of interest prevents them
> from continuing the financial support they gave to Ardour during 2006.
>
> Ardour is at an exciting point in its development: version 2.0 is about
> to released very shortly, and more and more developers have recently
> started contributing to the project. Once version 2.0 is released, we
> have a large list of substantial new features waiting to be added,
> including MIDI recording and playback (already implemented as part of
> our participation in Google's Summer of Code). New work to add support
> for Mackie/Logic Control surfaces is already substantially completed.
>
> However, despite the growing number of developers and the excitement of
> a 2.0 release, Ardour will not keep moving forward at an acceptable pace
> without at least one developer focused full time on it, and the end of
> SSL's funding will have a significant impact in this area. Paul Davis,
> Ardour's lead developer and founder, was paid entirely by SSL and is now
> seeking other ways of allowing him to continue working on Ardour as well
> as JACK.
>
> We welcome continuing contributions via Paypal. However, we are also in
> an urgent search for corporations or orther organizations that see the
> long term value of Ardour as part of the audio technology environment.
> If you or your organization are interested in helping to establish and
> support a non-profit foundation dedicated to ensuring Ardour's
> continuing development, please get in touch with Paul
> (paul at linuxaudiosystems.com)
>
>
>
>
>
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