[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 21:01, shirish शिरीष a écrit :
> 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 :)
>

Ah, ok indeed I misunderstood.
So that is something I'll consider when the time comes, thanks for the 
input :)