Re: [wx-discuss] wxWidgets.org as a Foundation like liberoffice or others ... could it be possible ?

[Bryan Petty]

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 6:34 AM <hobbit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could wxWidgets.org project become a project like linuxmint.org, libreoffice.org or many others ?
> A project where many people and even companies could send freely their donations.
> A kind of foundation led and driven by the original founders and main maintainers.

There's a couple of replies to this on the wx-users mailing list, and
I'm not sure if you're seeing those as well, but figured that might be
worth mentioning...

Generally speaking though, wxWidgets has lost about two-thirds of it's
user base gradually over the last 10 years, and as hard as it is to
face, that trend still continues downward even now. With mobile, web,
and recently, the onslaught of desktop PWAs (i.e. Electron), it's
pretty tough to beat those trends with wxWidgets (even though
wxWidgets apps are 10 times smaller downloads, and use 10 times less
memory). Timing just isn't great for building a new foundation for
wxWidgets no matter how you look at it, even if anyone had the time to
do it and maintain it for years to come, and creating a new foundation
won't change anything about that.

As for donations, it's certainly possible to accept them without a
foundation (and wxWidgets used to for a few years), however, none of
the core developers have expressed any interest in accepting them past
what's needed to cover infrastructure costs, and those have been
entirely covered just by Google's Summer of Code program - enough to
continue covering 100% of all infrastructure costs for the foreseeable
future. There's never been a desire to accept donations other than
just getting developers involved in the project and contributing
improvements. This is at least part of the reason the project stopped
accepting donations a while back.

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Regards,
Bryan Petty