[FFmpeg-devel] SWS cleanup / SPI Funding Suggestion

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 11:57:45PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 09:50:41PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
[...]
> > If the revenue and balance were much higher, you could
> > hire all of them. But you can't, and then the simplest and safest way to avoid 
> > moral hazards is to hire nobody.
> 
> Let us all starve because if we start fishing and eating fish it might just be
> that there are not enough fish
> 
> Whats the worst that can happen ?
> We fund a few projects, we ask for donations a slight bit more actively,
> maybe a news entry on the webpage pointing to what work was possible from
> donations.
> and it doesnt work out and our funds decrease from 120k with funding 5+ projects
> to 60k. and at that point we return to hw and travel only use of the money

that should have been 150k (which is what we have curently) and 100k (where
i think we should rethink funding projects IF donations do not increase
to make us cashflow neutral)

thx

[...]

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