[gimp-web] content: draft news to promote developers' funding.

[Jehan <jehanp src gnome org>]

commit 6afb630eb89f01d35aab85516020e81c089b3927
Author: Jehan <jehan girinstud io>
Date:   Sun Jul 25 22:13:56 2021 +0200

    content: draft news to promote developers' funding.
    
    We have had various discussions across the previous year about how to
    help developers wanting to be funded. Mitch proposed during some video
    chat that the GIMP project should endorse or at least promote more
    officially our fundings (for Pippin and ZeMarmot) so let's do this.
    
    This is a first draft of such a funding promotion news.
    
    As a next step, we have discussed on IRC that it would be worth to
    publish our development reports on gimp.org too in the future, instead
    on crowdfunding platforms (these could just have the links to the
    gimp.org news article).

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+Title: Funding GIMP developers for sustainable development
+Date: 2021-07-27
+Category: News
+Authors: Wilber
+Slug: support-gimp-developers-sustainable-development
+Summary: GIMP is developed by its community - support the humans behind
+Status: draft
+
+GIMP has been developed as a community since very early on, as its
+original authors left. There never was a single entity behind it though
+it is regularly backed by various organizations.
+We might have our own at some point, as this is a topic we have been
+discussing. If we do, this will be a non-profit and it will be as a
+support to the community, not the opposite. Yet the fact is: we
+currently have none.
+This begs the question of sustainability when contributors wish to
+stay longer while not being able to afford being penniless volunteers
+forever.
+
+It has become a growing concern as we have had skilled developers come
+and go for years. Contributing takes a crazy amount of time and people
+have family, work and other responsibilities to take care of. Thus when
+core team contributors are willing to be paid for making Free Software,
+we have decided that GIMP as a project should encourage such endeavour
+by putting more emphasis on their funding.
+
+There are currently 2 such crowdfunding projects. **You can consider
+these crowdfundings as "official" as can be and completely endorsed by
+the GIMP project**:
+
+* [Øyvind Kolås](https://www.patreon.com/pippin): **GEGL maintainer**
+  (GIMP's Image Processing framework).
+  [¹](#yvind-kolas-gegl-maintainer)
+* [ZeMarmot project](https://www.patreon.com/zemarmot): Jehan (**GIMP
+  maintainer**) and Aryeom (**artist, designer** and more…).
+  [²](#zemarmot-gimp-maintainer-and-libre-art)
+
+For more information, please read below.
+
+# Øyvind Kolås: GEGL maintainer
+
+Øyvind has been contributing to GIMP since 2004, according to his oldest
+commit. He soon became [GEGL](https://gegl.org/) maintainer, for what
+was meant to become one day GIMP's image engine with the goal of
+supporting higher bit depth images, more color models, floating point
+processing and having a graph-based framework which would be the base of
+non-destructive image manipulation. As you may know, some initial
+support of GEGL in GIMP has happened in [GIMP
+2.8](https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.8.html#gegl) with a
+wider port happening in [GIMP
+2.10](https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.10.html). This is still
+a work-in-progress as we are planning to go much further, showing how
+much of a long-run work this is.
+
+Øyvind is known not only for his work on GEGL itself, but also for his
+various experiments around images and colors. One of his visual
+experiments with [color grids on grayscale
+images](https://www.redsharknews.com/post-vfx/item/6540-this-image-is-black-and-white-no-really)
+even got viral back in 2019 and spread all over the internet and on too
+many news outlet to name them all.
+
+<figure>
+<img src="{attach}sc-low-saturation.webp" alt="Color assimilation grid illusion, by Øyvind Kolås"/>
+<figcaption>
+<em>Color assimilation grid illusion, by Øyvind Kolås</em>
+</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+One of his later endeavour is [ctx](https://ctx.graphics/), a vector
+graphics stack, which is probably hard to describe as some parts of this
+project are a bit mind blowing, so let's give you the official
+description:
+
+> ctx is a media-rich terminal and a vector graphics stack, built around
+> a textual serialization protocol. The textual serialization has a
+> corresponding binary representation that is used by the core
+> rasterizer as well as sharing data among threads. The ctx protocol is
+> available as an extension to ANSI escape sequences in the ctx terminal
+> - the terminal launched when running the ctx binary with no arguments.
+> This extension allows scripts in any language to output vector
+> graphics in addition to or instead of monospace text in each
+> tab/window, and also provides network transparent rendering.
+
+All of this development background is most likely why Øyvind describes
+himself as, veridically a good description in our opinion:
+
+> I am a digital media toolsmith, creating tools and infrastructure to
+> aid creation of my own and others artistic and visual digital media
+> experiments.
+
+GIMP wouldn't be here without sharp minds like him. Can you imagine, 17
+years or more of dedication to free software and researching images? So
+yes, [the GIMP project fully endorses Øyvind's Patreon campaign and we
+encourage everyone to donate!](https://www.patreon.com/pippin)
+
+<p style='text-align:center;'>
+  <span class='donate-button'>
+    <a href="https://www.patreon.com/pippin";>
+      Fund Øyvind Kolås<br/>
+      GEGL development
+    </a>
+  </span>
+</p>
+
+# ZeMarmot: GIMP maintainer and Libre Art
+
+[ZeMarmot](https://film.zemarmot.net/) is a Libre Art project born as
+an idea in 2014, launched in 2015 with production starting in 2016. In
+particular, it is an Open Animation Film ([Creative Commons
+BY-SA](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) license
+promoting sharing and reuse) led by the animation film director, Aryeom,
+and GIMP co-maintainer, Jehan.
+
+<figure>
+<img src="{attach}ZeMarmot_header.png" alt="ZeMarmot project logo"/>
+<figcaption>
+<em>ZeMarmot project logo</em>
+</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+Now you might wonder why an animation film would help GIMP, but this is
+actually the whole reason why Jehan has been heavily developing the
+software, to the point that he has been the biggest contributor since
+2020 and is now co-maintainer. Working on other fun projects with Aryeom
+is even the whole reason why Jehan started contributing to GIMP at all,
+ever since 2012.
+
+The ensued development is not only about illustration and animation, as
+some might believe. They are not aiming at changing the scope of the
+software. GIMP is a generic graphics manipulation tool, and what we
+realize over the years is that most features are so cross-fields that it
+makes total sense to have a generic tool. Moreover Aryeom and Jehan also
+work from time to time on printing jobs, logos, photos, pin buttons,
+board games… they do all kinds of things with GIMP!
+
+A lot of care is taken to fix bugs, improve stability, efficiency,
+packaging and add generic tools and features useful as much to
+photographers, designers, illustrators, scientists, animators…
+Trying to list all the improvements brought by *ZeMarmot* would actually
+not be possible because there are too many.
+
+Nowadays, *ZeMarmot* is as much an **artisanal animation film project**
+(Aryeom single-handedly working on nearly every production role) as it
+is a **software development project** (both with Jehan on development
+and Aryeom on testing and designing features). Aryeom and Jehan believes
+that taking ownership of your working tool matters and this why their
+collaboration works so well, by bringing together artist and developer.
+
+The nice finale touch is that their big dream is to be able one day to
+hire more Free Software developers and artists. This project is under
+[LILA](https://libreart.info/)'s (*Libre comme L'Art* — *Free as
+Art* in French) umbrella, a France-registered non-profit dedicated to
+Libre Art and creative media Free Software.
+Could you imagine in maybe some not-so distant future if we had a
+non-profit studio producing artworks in Libre Art licenses, for everyone
+to view, share and even modify (source files are provided, e.g. [the
+ones](https://gitlab.gnome.org/Jehan/what-is-peertube/) for this video
+they made for [Framasoft about
+Peertube](https://framatube.org/videos/watch/9c9de5e8-0a1e-484a-b099-e80766180a6d))
+with many artists (hence producing films at much better pace than they
+are able right now) and with many developers fixing production issues.
+We can truly consider LILA as GIMP's own non-profit Open Animation
+studio!  And yes, an Open Animation studio producing Libre Art will also
+help get better tools for photography editing or design as well.
+
+This is why [the GIMP project also fully endorses LILA and *ZeMarmot*
+project and encourages the whole community to give to this project in
+order to improve GIMP](https://www.patreon.com/zemarmot). You can
+consider it a fostered project of GIMP.
+
+<p style='text-align:center;'>
+  <span class='donate-button'>
+    <a href="https://www.patreon.com/zemarmot";>
+      Fund ZeMarmot (Aryeom and Jehan)<br/>
+      GIMP development
+    </a>
+  </span>
+</p>
+
+*Note*: *ZeMarmot* is also present on
+[Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/ZeMarmot/) and
+[Tipeee](https://en.tipeee.com/zemarmot) platforms.
+
+# What about donations to the GNOME Foundation?
+
+For years, we have received [donations](https://www.gimp.org/donating/)
+through the umbrella of the GNOME Foundation. It is still possible to do
+so of course. Yet these donations are so far only usable for community
+needs. In particular, it helps us when we need hardware (not so often),
+and to gather contributors for
+[conferences](https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/01/09/libre-graphics-meeting-scale-2018/)
+(regularly we also help funding the conferences itself, because we
+believe that a sane free software graphics ecosystem should not be only
+about GIMP so we love to support other graphics software too) and
+[contributor
+meetings](https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/01/18/wilberweek-2017-announced/).
+
+What these donations through GNOME still cannot do is **funding paid
+development, so if that's what you want, please fund the developers
+directly as explained above.** GIMP project obviously welcomes the 2
+types of donation, for community needs through GNOME and for paid
+development through the 2 crowdfundings listed.
+
+**Thanks to everyone for supporting GIMP in whatever way suits you best!
+🤗**
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