FFmpeg is critical infrastructure for a lot of big companies.
The security-report workload is rising fast. It would be nice if donations, sponsorships, and code contributions kept pace.
Any artists or designers in the FFmpeg community who would like to help out?
We occasionally need artwork for social media, homepage news, and other community communication. It is volunteer/unpaid, help us fight ai-slop!
Reply or mail art@ffmpeg.org
So far, only 2 people have mailed us
The image that triggered this search was our rather bad server donation picture. So if you want to demonstrate your skills, a great sample would be a better image showing FFmpeg receiving a donated server.
The size difference between what random online "ICO converters" give you (15-370 KB) and what you get with a single @FFmpeg command (2.3 KB) is crazy!
ffmpeg -i favicon-32.png favicon.ico
Imagine all the disk space and traffic we're wasting because of them!
Ampere has clarified that the 2021/22 server was sent to VideoLAN. That server benefited the wider free software multimedia ecosystem. Ampere has also agreed to donate a server to SPI for use in FFmpeg CI. We thank Ampere for helping resolve this.
If you want to donate hardware or funds to FFmpeg as a project, please use FFmpegâs official SPI path or contact FFmpeg/SPI directly. If you want to support an individual developer personally, that is separate from a donation to FFmpeg.
Kieran deleted the post about the Ampere server.
This is incompatible with the purpose of this account. It also harms FFmpeg by obscuring the situation regarding FFmpegâs CI on our git forge and the handling of donations.
The delegation has therefore been revoked.
FFmpeg is paying for CI runners at Hetzner from project donations.
We understand that an 160-core server may have been donated for FFmpeg. If so, it would make a major difference for Forgejo CI/performance.
@AmpereComputing: please clarify whether it was donated for FFmpeg.
Turns out the server was not really gifted to FFmpeg but rather to the CEO of a company that does business around FFmpeg and whose contribution to FFmpeg were⊠of mixed consequences to say the least.
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