Re: Highlight individual project fundraisings

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 05:07:43PM +0900, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> I can see your concern with user-visible vs. non-visible projects, e.g.
> libraries vs. user visible apps, but I feel this is also a non issue
> because in fact; we have always had an easier time to find funding for
> the development of our platform - and as long as we continue to produce
> a platform that is competitive and remains useful to a wide variety of
> applications outside of just the "GNOME Desktop" use cases, this will
> remain true.
>
> It would seem to me at least, it is the user visible apps within GNOME
> which have been left behind in funding, and need to resort to public
> fundraising, because (almost) nobody is building products and
> generating revenue with these highly GNOME Desktop specific user facing
> Apps.

It depends, there are apps that are/were well funded (for example
gnome-builder), and there are libraries under-funded (for example
GtkSourceView).

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Sébastien