<div dir="ltr">We do have the Krita donations getting shown on the <a href="http://krita.org">krita.org</a> website. <a href="https://krita.org/en/">https://krita.org/en/</a> that is somewhat like a fundraiser.<div><br></div><div>That is a live view of all the donations coming in through the Paypal account for the current month. </div><div><br></div><div>We could utilize that mechanism and have one month's donations all go towards a fundraiser (no middle man like kickstarter). It wouldn't be too hard to make a custom fundraising template page on <a href="http://krita.org">krita.org</a> where we could have a progress bar and goals similar to how a kickstarter page would look. Even extras like "3 days remaining!" I did something similar a while ago when we were trying to get out of the tax situation. I did all the programming for that and it wouldn't be too hard to spruce up a variation.</div><div><br></div><div>
<span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Do we need to have"prizes" or other swag that needs to be kept track of? What about an email list to communicate with people that have donated? </span> Another potential issue with my approach would be if the funds are all going to the Krita foundation, or Boud's account that deals with merchandise and other stuff. Maybe we should keep this one much simpler and not have email lists and voting.</div><div><br></div><div>For the goals, I guess we would need to just scope out the work a bit to see how many bugs and polish items could be done with different budget amounts. Just saying "bugs" might be too vague. If we can be a bit more specific with things like "text tools polish and improvements" or "finally make color smudge brush multi-threaded" would be much more appealing. "Polish" for us is "new features" for most people.</div><div><br></div><div>Scott</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 2:11 AM, Kenny Coyle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kenny@heloo.net" target="_blank">kenny@heloo.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Boudewijn<font color="#212121" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><b>,</b></span></font><div><font color="#212121" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#212121" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:nowrap">Thanks for getting in touch,</span></font></div><div><font color="#212121" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#212121" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:nowrap">There are a few things that we had looked at in the past to help with this sort of thing, so we might be able to help out.</span></font></div><div><font color="#212121" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#212121" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:nowrap">Are there any key goals that Dmitry is going to be working on in the near future that we can focus on? I'm wondering what sort of copy we can use as a "hook."</span></font></div><div><font color="#212121" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#212121" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:nowrap">What sort of timescales do you have in mind?</span></font></div><div><font color="#212121" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#212121" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:nowrap">Thanks,</span></font></div><div><font color="#212121" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:nowrap">Kenny.</span></font></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 12:22 PM Boudewijn Rempt <<a href="mailto:boud@valdyas.org" target="_blank">boud@valdyas.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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We are planning to do a fund raising campaign for Krita in September. We're <br>
not entirely sure, though, what we'll be doing. The focus won't be features, <br>
like in our previous kickstarter campaigns, but stability and polish. That <br>
feels like it won't work for a kickstarter, so we're kind of wondering whether <br>
there are other platforms that are better suited to a theme like this.<br>
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We want to use this to generate publicity, we don't have a fixed funding goal, <br>
though the purpose is to continue having enough to fund dmitry's work on <br>
Krita. <br>
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