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

[shirish शिरीष]

at bottom :-

On 5/21/15, Timothée Giet <animtim at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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Hi Timothee,
You mis-understood me. I was not talking about the recent funding ones
that you did but more of the ones you did few years back. IIRC they
were smaller goals which basically were for funding about a month or
two with 2-3 features which would be provided in next few months and
as those were done and could be shown (as it didn't need core changes
as the recent funding cycle shared) those were done and both the users
and the developers were happy.

The amount raised was small  IIRC for one or two developer and they
used to give a developer report every month or so so  everybody knew
where they were vis-a-vis the target. Of course, people were free to
download and try to compile at any point of time.

Something similar for gcompris would perhaps work as well but guess
Bruno will be busy with the GSOC students as well so don't think
anything will happen till September, the only thing we can do is wait
till then and then see :)

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