Hi On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 02:55:16PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote: > Hi all > > As suggested in the thread with similar subject, here is the vote. > Please reply with a "Yes" or "No" to cast your vote. > Vote ends in 7 days. All members of the GA can vote > > > "Yes" > - The FFmpeg project should actively seek sponsors and funding. > - The money will be used for FFmpeg and the FFmpeg community. (Maintenance, > Development, Infra, Testing, Travel, Research, ...) > - The money would also be used to hire / employ / contract FFmpeg > Contributors fulltime or whatever the preferrance of each Contributor is. > - Work / employment shall be preferrentially be given to FFmpeg Developers / > FFmpeg community members. > This preferrance for "FFmpeg Developers / FFmpeg community members" shall > be the only preferrance. > Outside that preferrance, a fair selection process shall be used by the > General Assembly which > only maximizes FFmpegs future. > - Goals are > * to provide secure full time employment for every major FFmpeg > contributor, who wants to have that. > * to accelerate growth and improve quality > - A fair selection process shall be used by the FFmpeg Community to select > what the money is used for, which maximizes FFmpegs future. > - The FFmpeg community will be the decission maker about these funds. > - The FFmpeg community will, at any time be able to change the process of > how these decission are made by public consensus. > - In absence of privacy concerns, decissions will be made by public > consensus amongth the commuity, or if that fails, > public vote of the GA members requireing a 2/3 majority to release funds > for some use. > - For cases with privacy concerns, decissions will be made by consensus or > (2/3 maj) vote amongth the General Assembly. > - We will use SPI to collect the funds. > - If significant limitations or obstacles occur with SPI then we will > consider founding our own FFmpeg foundation. > > "No" > - leave things as they are
"Yes", I see no harm in trying to find sponsors and if we find them, to use the money for FFmpeg [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Democracy is the form of government in which you can choose your dictator
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