On Tue, 4 Mar 2025, 11:17 Michael Niedermayer, <mich...@niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> Hi Kieran > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 08:13:11AM -0600, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel > wrote: > [...] > > Hi Michael, > > > > Was all the STF discussion around the first application done in public? > > No, jb contacted STF in the name of FFmpeg without any public discussion. > This crossed STFs own reaching out to FFmpeg. Which is how it was noticed > > The mail below is from STF to jb. > > After that i immedeatly asked both thilo and jb to talk with each other. > I also repeatedly asked for the STF stuff to be made public. > I quote a rather sarcastic example from me (in german) asking thilo at the > end > of this mail > > So again, we need more open communication, more forgiveness, more working > together and less distrust, some virtual hugs and smiles > > > From: Tara Tarakiyee <X> > To: jb@X > Cc: "Fiona Krakenbürger" <X>, Abigail Garner <X> > Subject: Regarding Your STF Application > Date: Tuesday, 30 May 2023 22:22 > > Dear Jean-Baptiste Kempf, > > Thank you for your application to the Sovereign Tech Fund. We appreciate > the interest, but have a few questions about the timing of this > application. We have already reached out to ffmpeg maintainers through our > scouting process and gotten a response and arranged a call. We explained > how our funding works and asked that they go back to the ffmpeg maintainer > community and come back to us with a joint proposal that is agreed upon by > your existing governance structure. > > Given the timing of your proposal, are we to infer that you knew about > those conversations yet choose to apply independently? We much prefer to > have one process ongoing at the time, so we ask that you refer back to that > conversation and include your work there and we will continue considering > our support for ffmpeg through our scouting. If that is not possible for > some reason, please let us know. > > Please keep in mind that our mission at STF is to empower FOSS > infrastructure, so we support activities to improve security and > maintenance, but very rarely support new feature development, except when > there is a strong case for them in the public interest. Also it is > important for us that any supported work has the support of the maintainer > community. > > Please let me know if you have any questions. > > Best wishes, > Tara Tarakiyee > Sovereign Tech Fund > https://sovereigntechfund.de/ > > SPRIND GmbH > BUNDESAGENTUR > FÜR SPRUNGINNOVATIONEN > > Lagerhofstraße 4 > 04103 Leipzig > > Geschäftsführung: Berit Dannenberg, Rafael Laguna de la Vera > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr.-Ing. E. h. Peter Leibinger > Amtsgericht Leipzig – HRB 36977 – USt-ID DE328253854 > > > > Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2023 18:37:13 +0200 > From: Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc> > To: Thilo Borgmann <X> > Subject: Re: FFmpeg development support > > > Michael, er hat bereits versucht, das alles im Dunkeln abzuwickeln. Er > hat bereits einen Antrag eingereicht, den er _nicht_ geteilt hat und auch > auf Nachfrage _nicht_ teilt. Nur dummerweise hat er uns von der Sache an > sich erzählt und dummerweise, ist ihm das auf die Füße gefallen. > > Es gibt einen Grund, warum er darüber auch immernoch nicht redet, > Michael. Warum denkst du, steht in seiner Mail nur "Habt ihr davon gehört?" > ?... > > Thilo dein Antrag ist public auf der mailing liste (und wiki) ? > nein? > wenn nein dann was ist es dunkles was du planst ? > Please (as per your own declaration of transparency) therefore supply the rest of the email chain including all discussion with Thilo and/or other parties (e.g SPI) about STF. Kieran > _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
