[GCompris-devel] Why not do funding for gcompris unified graphics like krita did on a month to month basis ?

[Timothée Giet]

Le 21/05/2015 02:03, shirish शिरीष a écrit :
> addition at bottom :-
>
> On 5/21/15, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I saw the flexible funding that Bruno did and also have seen the
>> results but as was seen was much below the scale. One of the things on
>> my mind is why can't gcompris apply or try having similar to krita.
>> While they did whiz-bang with their latest on kickstarter see
>> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-free-paint-app-lets-make-it-faster-than-phot
>>   they also lead year around flexible funding goals with a feature or
>> two and making 2-3 monthly releases. It has a bit of micro-management
>> involved but as both (the fund-raiser and their backers) were happy I
>> don't see any issues in gcompris following the same route. If there
>> are modest goals and defined goal posts than there is possibility of
>> having success as well.
>>
>> I don't remember whether this was in 2014 or 2013 but do remember
>> krita using that strategy as well and being winner at that.
>>
>> Hope to see more activities getting unified graphics.
> Forgot you have Timothee Giet. If it's the same Timothee Giet from
> Krita then he would be able to share much more about the process or
> share pointers to whoever did those modest funding goals things in
> Krita. At the end, we want those unified graphics :)
>
> Side Note - Have reminded the Debian maintainer to start packaging the
> gcompris-qt as well to be in Debian and has been replied positively,
> so hopefully will see it soon in the archive.
>
> Till later.


Hi Shirish,

Actually what we tried with the crowdfunding campaign was already a bit 
similar to what we did for Krita.

We didn't have exactly the same stretch-goal process as this is a very 
different kind of software.

Also the kickstarter for Krita is not "flexible funding", it's 
all-or-nothing (if the goal is not met, we don't get money and nothing 
is done). Only the stretch-goals are kinda flexible as they are unlocked 
for each 1500e above the initial target of 20000. And they are just some 
more time paid allowing for some more features.

Note that while we didn't set such exact stretch goals, we had some 
infos about extended-goals if we go above the goal (plan was to add more 
animated drawings if that was the case). But since we didn't even come 
close to it, I don't think that would have made a big difference.

Also now that a big part is done, that makes more things to show, so I'm 
thinking about running a second crowdfunding to can finish the work. But 
as I'm already busy for the summer with some Krita-related work, this 
will have to wait for september.

Cheers

Timo.