On Tue, 4 Mar 2025, 19:01 Kieran Kunhya, <kieran...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > 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 > Hi Michael, I'm still waiting for this. Seeing as you are happy to leak private conversations at will (both me, the CC, FFlabs and others), it's interesting you've been so silent about this I wonder why? 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".
