[MPlayer-dev-eng] contribution.

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hello Marco,

Please keep Marco in CC as he's not subscribed.

Marco Aurelio wrote:
> I want to contribute money for your project.
> How may I send to you? I Prefer PAYPAL.
>
> Mplayer helps me too much.
>
> Congratulations for your team
> and your excellent work !!!

We aren't currently looking for donations for the team as a whole.

The questions of setting up a foundation as risen several times for
the past month, but whether or not an actual foundation will get set
up remains unknown.

I copied below my signature MPlayer's maintainer Alex Beregszaszi's
mail he sent some days ago which brought this question up again.

What I advise you to do for the time being is have a look at our donation page:
http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/donations.html
and see what you can afford and either donate to one of the member an
item of his whishlist, or you may also donate to the team as a whole,
but the items listed on that page a quite expensive. Do you really
want that? :)

Guillaume

> Hi,
>
> This idea has been proposed by several people already, like Attila
> Kinali in the past, but had no real responses.
>
> It would be really good setting up a legal entity for the MPlayer
> project, also it could handle FFmpeg or just be a general open source
> multimedia hacking foundation, which could cover all the projects, which
> want to join.
>
> This foundation in first place, would get the donations we got and the
> domain name rights transferred. Also the new server should be owned by
> it. These are the short term ideas.
>
> In long term, we could make a cafepress.com account, spreading MPlayer
> "branded" coffee mugs, t-shirts and baseball hats, AFAIK it gives some
> percents of the income to the project. And again, in long term, we could
> set up bounties, like GNOME and several others have. Such bounties could
> be made for reimplementing an open source codec from scratch (like
> musepack in ffmpeg), or implementing a code from a standard (like ac3),
> or making a specific job for mplayer (like a new gui).
>
> Setting up a foundation in Hungary is extremely easy. Regarding the
> monetary part, it only needs 800EUR to be placed on the bank account at
> start. Usually the foundation costs like 40-80 EUR per year when doing
> nothing (this includes bank account costs and accounting). But I dont
> propose a Hungarian one, as I am the only one being here, the best would
> be a German e.V., as we have the most developers living in that country.
>
> Ideas are welcome, especially knowledge about making an e.V. (btw, is it
> possible for a foreigner to join an e.V or take a place in it?) and
> volunteers for handling this case  :)
>
> -- Alex Beregszaszi email: alex at fsn.hu Free Software Network cell: +36 70 314442
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