I can certainly understand and do see the intent and respect the point
behind their/your decision.

I just wish there was more I could *do*. I will never have the time to
become a contributor, unfortunately, as between work, family, and my own
projects with multiscale models of reaction-diffusion, cellular automata
and other items (a hobby which only gets an hour or two a week) my time is
just gone.

I guess the best vector for inroads will still be through UberPov, so I'm
going to back that.

Think about a list of things I could help sponsor and once we take care of
business in December we can look at starting on that list.

You are in a better position than I, to know what would do the most good.

Ian

clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 08.11.2016 um 00:05 schrieb [GDS|Enropy]:
> 
>> On a personal note, any bounty I pay will also have a donation to the Pov
>> Team/org as a whole if such a thing is possible. Do they have a Patreon
>> page or something? I want to make sure the whole org benefits.
> 
> The POV-Ray dev team as a whole has a tradition of discouraging monetary
> donations, to protect against quarrels among all the contributors over a
> fair scheme for distributing such donations.
> 
> (They did put up the occasional Amazon wishlist to get a new hard drive
> for the web server or a raytracing-related book for one of the team
> members, but that's an entirely different matter.)
> 
> 
> The only crowdfunding platform the POV-Ray dev team is officially
> present on is an open source bounty platform where anyone can put up
> bounties for any issue tracked on any GitHub project, potentially
> without the project owners even knowing about this; so we officially
> claimed dibs on the POV-Ray project on their platform to assert at least
> a minimum degree of control over this mechanism. But currently we don't
> publicly advertise our presence there.
> 
> 
> As a member of the POV-Ray dev team, I stay in line with this policy.
> 
> As the person behind UberPOV I tend to be less picky, and had actually
> set up means for people to funnel funds my way soon after the start of
> that project; but out of respect for my fellow contributors I'm not
> making much fuss in official POV-Ray channels about this fact (which is
> probably why nothing much has come out of it previously ;)).
> 
>

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