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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/21/2014 05:35 PM, Dan Wilcox
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Well, time & money are intertwined.
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<div>This is why I was talking about a Pd foundation/organization
etc that could take donations from schools, organizations, poor
artists etc and roll it into bounties or development
support/residences. Pd has a pretty active user base but a much
much smaller developer base so it makes things a bit harder
since there is essentially more pressure on these smaller
numbers of developers who already have limited time as it is.
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<div>I know a "foundation" is a huge word to throw around but it
could literally be one place in the world, probably support by
some university, that hosts people to work on aspects of Pd.
We've already had people stepping up to help pay for airfare
for the last few Pd meetups / patching circles etc, so that
could be something similar.</div>
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<div>Anyway, it's totally *doable* it always come back to who
will do it and when.<br>
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I'd be happy to help with something like this.<br>
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However, your description of the user/developer ratio doesn't ring
true to me. There's actually a surplus of developers and
development energy-- I count two implementations of presets in the
last year or two (in Pd-l2ork and the Chocolate et Coffee lib) which
are in addition to however many already exist on svn and the Pd
forum.<br>
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Furthermore, we've got a flag to make a Qt window pop up when
starting the most recent git version of Pd-l2ork. We'll
incrementally be adding the functionality to create Qt canvas
windows and draw patches in them side-by-side with a functioning
tcl/tk gui.<br>
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-Jonathan<br>
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