Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-31 Thread Steven Liu
Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel 于2023年11月1日周三 08:04写道: > > > it would just show up once lets say on a specific day 1 year after the code > > is added. we would remove it on that day ourselfs. > > It would just be a simple one time shown message that says > > "Decoded by ffmpeg.org / Please donate

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-31 Thread Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel
Am 31.10.23 um 18:48 schrieb Michael Niedermayer: On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 06:37:58PM +0100, Hendrik Leppkes wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 6:31 PM Michael Niedermayer wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 07:19:41PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: Le tiistaina 31. lokakuuta 2023, 18.58.57 EET Mic

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-31 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 06:37:58PM +0100, Hendrik Leppkes wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 6:31 PM Michael Niedermayer > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 07:19:41PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > > > Le tiistaina 31. lokakuuta 2023, 18.58.57 EET Michael Niedermayer a écrit > > > : > >

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-31 Thread Hendrik Leppkes
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 6:31 PM Michael Niedermayer wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 07:19:41PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > > Le tiistaina 31. lokakuuta 2023, 18.58.57 EET Michael Niedermayer a écrit : > > > > That's not a credible solution for a library. All reverse dependency > > > > d

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-31 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 07:19:41PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > Le tiistaina 31. lokakuuta 2023, 18.58.57 EET Michael Niedermayer a écrit : > > > That's not a credible solution for a library. All reverse dependency > > > developers would disable that before they ship affected FFmpeg versions

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-31 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le tiistaina 31. lokakuuta 2023, 18.58.57 EET Michael Niedermayer a écrit : > > That's not a credible solution for a library. All reverse dependency > > developers would disable that before they ship affected FFmpeg versions, > > or worse, just stop updating their vendored FFmpeg. > > If its annou

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-31 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 09:36:13PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > Le sunnuntaina 29. lokakuuta 2023, 18.12.58 EET Michael Niedermayer a écrit : > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 04:35:35PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Le 28 octobre 2023 21:01:57 GMT+03:00, Michael Niederm

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-30 Thread Gijs Peskens
On 26-10-2023 17:45, Michael Niedermayer wrote: To help 2. we should favor flashy, cool development that can bring in more donations Wouldn't it make more sense to fund grunt work that's needed, but no-one wants to do? I'd imagine there's more developers that like to have their name attache

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-29 Thread Nicolas George
Rémi Denis-Courmont (12023-10-29): > Be careful what you wish for. Michael started this thread, so I suppose that > he wants funding for himself and/or for some other key developers. They are It would be hypocritical of me to take this into considerations. Corporate sponsorships with strings att

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-29 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le sunnuntaina 29. lokakuuta 2023, 18.47.34 EET Nicolas George a écrit : > Rémi Denis-Courmont (12023-10-29): > > And unfortunately, I do believe that Ronald is correct in pointing out > > that big companies will want oversight in exchange for money. > > And this is why the only acceptable answer

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-29 Thread Paul B Mahol
On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 8:46 PM Nicolas George wrote: > Ronald S. Bultje (12023-10-29): > > *You* may well end up not accepting their offered help, and that's your > > call to make. But if others in our community end up accepting their > offered > > help, there's nothing you can do against it. >

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-29 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 3:46 PM Nicolas George wrote: > Ronald S. Bultje (12023-10-29): > > *You* may well end up not accepting their offered help, and that's your > > call to make. But if others in our community end up accepting their > offered > > help, there's nothing you can do against it. >

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-29 Thread Nicolas George
Ronald S. Bultje (12023-10-29): > *You* may well end up not accepting their offered help, and that's your > call to make. But if others in our community end up accepting their offered > help, there's nothing you can do against it. Other in the community are free to do as they choose on their own,

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-29 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
Hi Nicolas, On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 12:47 PM Nicolas George wrote: > Rémi Denis-Courmont (12023-10-29): > > And unfortunately, I do believe that Ronald is correct in pointing out > > that big companies will want oversight in exchange for money. > > And this is why the only acceptable answer is:

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-29 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le sunnuntaina 29. lokakuuta 2023, 18.12.58 EET Michael Niedermayer a écrit : > On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 04:35:35PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Le 28 octobre 2023 21:01:57 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer a écrit : > > >On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 07:21:03PM +0200, Michael Niederm

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-29 Thread Nicolas George
Rémi Denis-Courmont (12023-10-29): > And unfortunately, I do believe that Ronald is correct in pointing out > that big companies will want oversight in exchange for money. And this is why the only acceptable answer is: to hell with them and anybody who supports them. That might make less money in

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-29 Thread Kieran Kunhya
> > so if we have someone do some payed development work be that one time or > continous. There would be a contract that says what is going to be done. > That also would have been approved by the community or GA or whatver and > the company paying would have a say in whats in that contract, really

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-29 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 04:35:35PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > Hi, > > Le 28 octobre 2023 21:01:57 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer > a écrit : > >On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 07:21:03PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > >> Hi ronald > >> > >> On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 12:43:15PM -0400, Ronald

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-29 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 10:17:50PM +0100, Kieran Kunhya wrote: > On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 at 18:21, Michael Niedermayer > wrote: > > > Hi ronald > > > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 12:43:15PM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: > > > Hi Thilo, > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 11:31 AM Thilo Borgmann via ffm

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-29 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Hi, Le 28 octobre 2023 21:01:57 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer a écrit : >On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 07:21:03PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote: >> Hi ronald >> >> On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 12:43:15PM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: >> > Hi Thilo, >> > >> > On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 11:31 AM Thilo Bo

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-28 Thread Kieran Kunhya
On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 at 18:21, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > Hi ronald > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 12:43:15PM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: > > Hi Thilo, > > > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 11:31 AM Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel < > > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote: > > > > > What this is about, is

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-28 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 08:01:57PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 07:21:03PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > > Hi ronald > > > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 12:43:15PM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: > > > Hi Thilo, > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 11:31 AM Thilo Bo

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-28 Thread Paul B Mahol
On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 8:02 PM Michael Niedermayer wrote: > On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 07:21:03PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > > Hi ronald > > > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 12:43:15PM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: > > > Hi Thilo, > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 11:31 AM Thilo Borgmann via

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-28 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 07:21:03PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > Hi ronald > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 12:43:15PM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: > > Hi Thilo, > > > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 11:31 AM Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel < > > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote: > > > > > What this

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-28 Thread Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel
Am 28.10.23 um 18:43 schrieb Ronald S. Bultje: Hi Thilo, On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 11:31 AM Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel < ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote: What this is about, is to set up a way to properly spend the SPI money aside from travel & hw. Why we should not do it because some compan

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-28 Thread Michael Niedermayer
Hi ronald On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 12:43:15PM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: > Hi Thilo, > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 11:31 AM Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel < > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote: > > > What this is about, is to set up a way to properly spend the SPI money > > aside > > from travel

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-28 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
Hi Thilo, On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 11:31 AM Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel < ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote: > What this is about, is to set up a way to properly spend the SPI money > aside > from travel & hw. Why we should not do it because some companies > beurocracy, I > cannot see. > I since

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-28 Thread Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel
Hi, Am 28.10.23 um 16:20 schrieb Ronald S. Bultje: Hi, On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 11:45 AM Michael Niedermayer wrote: This is financial sustainability Plan A (SPI) ATM SPI has like 150k $, we do not activly seek donations, we do not currently use SPI money to fund any development. SPI money is

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-28 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
Hi, On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 11:45 AM Michael Niedermayer wrote: > This is financial sustainability Plan A (SPI) > ATM SPI has like 150k $, we do not activly seek donations, we do not > currently > use SPI money to fund any development. SPI money is ultimately controlled > by > the FFmpeg communi

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Cosmin Stejerean via ffmpeg-devel
> On Oct 27, 2023, at 12:00 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > > Le perjantaina 27. lokakuuta 2023, 21.52.51 EEST Cosmin Stejerean via ffmpeg- > devel a écrit : >> With a list of FFLabs consultants the "what they work on" can be extracted >> from the git log or mailing list patches. Not who is pa

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le perjantaina 27. lokakuuta 2023, 21.52.51 EEST Cosmin Stejerean via ffmpeg- devel a écrit : > With a list of FFLabs consultants the "what they work on" can be extracted > from the git log or mailing list patches. Not who is paying for the work or > how much is being paid, but certainly the what c

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Cosmin Stejerean via ffmpeg-devel
> On Oct 27, 2023, at 9:14 AM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > >> Consider FFlabs, you can look at who is being paid by FFlabs, its being >> mentioned in various places. >> Then look at what these people do, so you know what they are paid for. > > I don't know if FFlabs publishes the payments it

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le perjantaina 27. lokakuuta 2023, 19.05.51 EEST Michael Niedermayer a écrit : > > This is about the funding organisation(s) and the recipient developer(s) > > in > > need of sustainable funding. While my income is public (if you know where > > to look), I sincerely doubt that many people *here* wo

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 06:24:58PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: >Hi, > > Le perjantaina 27. lokakuuta 2023, 15.24.38 EEST Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg- > devel a écrit : > > >>> Why should it be via SPI? What's the benefit of that hypothetical > > >>> future > additional funding going via

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le perjantaina 27. lokakuuta 2023, 18.08.54 EEST Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg- devel a écrit : > > Do you seriously think this project will have a sudden outbreak of > > professionalism and suddenly start producing detailed contracts and > > statements of work? > > The current level appear appealing

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Hi, Le perjantaina 27. lokakuuta 2023, 15.24.38 EEST Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg- devel a écrit : > >>> Why should it be via SPI? What's the benefit of that hypothetical future additional funding going via SPI, as opposed to: > >> obviously transparency and community control. None of which is gi

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel
Am 27.10.23 um 15:38 schrieb Kieran Kunhya: On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 at 03:23, Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel < ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote: Am 27.10.23 um 03:28 schrieb Kieran Kunhya: Hi, On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 12:41, Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel < ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote: Of cour

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 06:46:42AM -0700, Kieran Kunhya wrote: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 at 05:32, Michael Niedermayer > wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 01:43:34PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > > > > > > > > > Le 26 octobre 2023 18:45:23 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer < > > mich...@niederm

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Kieran Kunhya
On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 at 05:32, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 01:43:34PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > > > > > > Le 26 octobre 2023 18:45:23 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer < > mich...@niedermayer.cc> a écrit : > [...] > > >* If you have some flashy FFmpeg project you wa

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Kieran Kunhya
On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 at 03:23, Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel < ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote: > Am 27.10.23 um 03:28 schrieb Kieran Kunhya: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 12:41, Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel < > > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote: > > > >> Of course. FFmpeg has a donatio

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 01:43:34PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > > > Le 26 octobre 2023 18:45:23 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer > a écrit : [...] > >* If you have some flashy FFmpeg project you want to work on with a cost of > > between 5-15k $ then propose it on the mailing list, make y

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 01:10:15PM +0200, Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel wrote: > Hi, > > Am 27.10.23 um 12:43 schrieb Rémi Denis-Courmont: > > > > > > Le 26 octobre 2023 18:45:23 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer > > a écrit : > > > This is financial sustainability Plan A (SPI) > > > ATM SPI ha

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel
Am 27.10.23 um 13:30 schrieb Rémi Denis-Courmont: Hi, Le 27 octobre 2023 14:10:15 GMT+03:00, Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel a écrit : Le 26 octobre 2023 18:45:23 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer a écrit : This is financial sustainability Plan A (SPI) ATM SPI has like 150k $, we do not activ

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 06:28:25PM -0700, Kieran Kunhya wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 12:41, Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel < > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote: > > > Of course. FFmpeg has a donations account. So the money is already there > > and > > already used for the reimbursement

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Hi, Le 27 octobre 2023 14:10:15 GMT+03:00, Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel a écrit : >> Le 26 octobre 2023 18:45:23 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer >> a écrit : >>> This is financial sustainability Plan A (SPI) >>> ATM SPI has like 150k $, we do not activly seek donations, we do not >>> curren

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel
Hi, Am 27.10.23 um 12:43 schrieb Rémi Denis-Courmont: Le 26 octobre 2023 18:45:23 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer a écrit : This is financial sustainability Plan A (SPI) ATM SPI has like 150k $, we do not activly seek donations, we do not currently use SPI money to fund any development. SPI

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le 26 octobre 2023 18:45:23 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer a écrit : >This is financial sustainability Plan A (SPI) >ATM SPI has like 150k $, we do not activly seek donations, we do not currently >use SPI money to fund any development. SPI money is ultimately controlled by >the FFmpeg community

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-27 Thread Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel
Am 27.10.23 um 03:28 schrieb Kieran Kunhya: Hi, On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 12:41, Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel < ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote: Of course. FFmpeg has a donations account. So the money is already there and already used for the reimbursement requests. Whatever we spent it for nee

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-26 Thread Kieran Kunhya
Hi, On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 12:41, Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel < ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote: > Of course. FFmpeg has a donations account. So the money is already there > and > already used for the reimbursement requests. Whatever we spent it for > needs to > be decided by the community. Sp

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-26 Thread Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel
Am 26.10.23 um 21:02 schrieb Kieran Kunhya: * If you have some flashy FFmpeg project you want to work on with a cost of between 5-15k $ then propose it on the mailing list, make yourself ready for some paperwork complexities and some public debate as thats the first time we try this, th

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] financial sustainability Plan A (SPI)

2023-10-26 Thread Kieran Kunhya
> > * If you have some flashy FFmpeg project you want to work on with a cost of > between 5-15k $ then propose it on the mailing list, make yourself ready > for > some paperwork complexities and some public debate as thats the first > time we > try this, there will be extra issues likely. And