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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">Hello Alex.<BR>If you subscribe to the mail list, read our wiki and submit your patches, you are contributing.<BR><BR>How did you become involved in the development of VLC?<BR>As described above.<BR><BR>Why was VLC developed as an open source project?<BR>So users can develop vlc and solve the bugs.<BR><BR>How has open source benefited the development of VLC?<BR>Because thanks to the users like you and me, vlc is being developed.<BR><BR>What problems have persisted with VLC development?<BR>The port's restrictions, for example.<BR><BR>Apart from donations from the public how is the development of VLC funded?<BR>We want people to develop. And also money to maintain the servers and the ports. See the videolan.org contributing section for more information.<BR>Apart from donations, videolan started a kick starter project to fund the development of vlc on windows 8<BR>If you have more questions, ask me to,my personal email, because the mail list is only for patches.<BR>Best regards.<BR><BR>Konrad Iturbe<BR>http://chernowii.com</DIV></DIV>
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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><A href="mailto:4905ab@googlemail.com">alex bennett</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">25/10/2013 20:51</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><A href="mailto:vlc-devel@videolan.org">vlc-devel@videolan.org</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">[vlc-devel] Research enquiry by the University of Bolton UK</SPAN><BR><BR></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; COLOR: black">For an assignment for my computing course to research on an open source project, and communicate with a developer who currently maintains the project and to research the software and its development as open source software.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; COLOR: black">As </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">VLC has</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; COLOR: black"> been my go to software for watching anmie for the past years so would make it a good candidate for my research in open source software.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black">How did you become involved in the development of </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">VLC</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black">?</SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; COLOR: black">Why was </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">VLC</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; COLOR: black"> developed as an open source project?</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black">How has open source benefited the development of </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">VLC</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black">?</SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; COLOR: black">What problems have persisted with </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">VLC</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; COLOR: black"> development?</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Apart from donations from the public how is the development of </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">VLC</SPAN> <SPAN style="COLOR: black">funded?</SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; COLOR: black">Thanks for your time, Yours sinisterly Alex Bennett of the university of Bolton UK</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"></SPAN></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>