[vorbis] more vorbis press!

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:30:05PM -0800, Jack Moffitt wrote:
> > I sent you e-mail about this when I first heard the news. What level
> > of sponsorship is realistically required to keep this project going for, say,
> > one year ? And how far is that likely to get us ? To a video codec ?
> 
> These are kinda two separate question, and monty will have to help me
> answer the "where will it get us" one.
> 
> Right now what we are looking for is someone to pay us to continue working
> on Vorbis fulltime.  There were about 3 and a half people working fulltime
> on the project at iCast (not to mention our great intern, Robert).  That
> requires salaries for a few people for however long.
> 
> The other possibility is to sponsor one individual (we should obviously
> start with monty) for a length of time (months probably being the base
> unit).
> 
> I should note that the sponsors we have at 1.0 are going to get a fair
> amount of press and recognition, just as icast did during the beta 1 and
> beta 2 releases.  The icast logo was on most of our marketing materials
> (tshirts, cards, stickers, etc) and we told the story of icast when we
> told the story of vorbis.
> 
> That being said, we'll be putting together a more formal "how to sponsor
> vorbis" document soon, so that everyone knows what we need, and whats
> available.
> 
> For a long time I have thought of accepting donations from end users or
> whoever from the xiph.org website.  The idea being that we would raise X
> amount of dollars and only accept the donations if the total donation
> amount was reached (you'd get the money back if we never made it). Or
> something similar.  Would be quite easy with PayPal.  Is this soemthing
> you guys think is a good idea?
> 
> jack.

You might also want to consider making up some kind of saleable product,
like the FSF's compiled-for-you GCC set. This would make it easier for some
companies to contribute. (I.e. they would never give you money but wouldn't
bat an eye to pay $5,000 for 'Vorbis Developers Kit' which would include
perhaps nothing you couldn't download from the Internet for free).

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