blog/data/2010-10-19-gnash.txt

   1 Title: Pledge for funding to the Gnash project to get AVM2 support
   2 Tags: english, nuug, web, multimedia, video
   3 Date: 2010-10-19 14:45
   4
   5 <p><a href="http://www.getgnash.org/">The Gnash project</a> is the
   6 most promising solution for a Free Software Flash implementation. It
   7 has done great so far, but there is still far to go, and recently its
   8 funding has dried up.  I believe AVM2 support in Gnash is vital to the
   9 continued progress of the project, as more and more sites show up with
  10 AVM2 flash files.</p>
  11
  12 <p>To try to get funding for developing such support, I have started
  13 <a href="http://www.pledgebank.com/gnash-avm2">a pledge</a> with the
  14 following text:</P>
  15
  16 <p><blockquote>
  17
  18   <p>"I will pay 100$ to the Gnash project to develop AVM2 support but
  19   only if 10 other people will do the same."</p>
  20
  21   <p>- Petter Reinholdtsen, free software developer</p>
  22
  23   <p>Deadline to sign up by: 24th December 2010</p>
  24
  25   <p>The Gnash project need to get support for the new Flash file
  26   format AVM2 to work with a lot of sites using Flash on the
  27   web. Gnash already work with a lot of Flash sites using the old AVM1
  28   format, but more and more sites are using the AVM2 format these
  29   days. The project web page is available from
  30   http://www.getgnash.org/ . Gnash is a free software implementation
  31   of Adobe Flash, allowing those of us that do not accept the terms of
  32   the Adobe Flash license to get access to Flash sites.</p>
  33
  34   <p>The project need funding to get developers to put aside enough
  35   time to develop the AVM2 support, and this pledge is my way to try
  36   to get this to happen.</p>
  37
  38   <p>The project accept donations via the OpenMediaNow foundation,
  39   <a href="http://www.openmedianow.org/?q=node/32">http://www.openmedianow.org/?q=node/32</a> .</p>
  40
  41 </blockquote></p>
  42
  43 <p>I hope you will support this effort too.  I hope more than 10
  44 people will participate to make this happen.  The more money the
  45 project gets, the more features it can develop using these funds.
  46 :)</p>