FontForge Funding (Dual Post)

Hi, folks.

As many of you know, FontForge lost its main funding source almost two
years ago now. I've been working on a volunteer basis, but my availability
has been rather low since I'm forced to focus on paying work. Likewise, I'm
not going to as many typography/graphics conferences now that I'm paying
out-of-pocket.

Given that we got over 100,000 downloads for the last release, I'm starting
to think that it would be worthwhile to try raising money to support
accelerated development.

The baseline would involve just putting donate buttons on the release and
download pages, but I've heard a few other ideas. So there are a few
questions to be asked.

   - How much is ongoing development of FontForge worth to each of you?
   - In which areas would you like that ongoing development to be (fixing
   this, adding that, ...)?
   - Does adding a donate button seem like the right approach? If we ask
   for money on a per-release basis, what's the right amount? $5?
   - Are there any other ideas?
   - Are there any potential corporate sponsors/partners that I ought to
   try to engage?
   - Is anybody involved with a non-profit organization willing and able to
   act as the "umbrella" (the handler of funds)?


Let me know.

Best wishes,

Frank

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