[kde-community] Fundraising

[Martin Konold]

Hi Jos,

what about the About dialog?

IMHO this is the expected location for a "Thank you" and also a "How can I contribute" section.

Regards,
--martin

Am 10.07.2014 12:10 schrieb Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet at gmail.com>:
>
> So, today we finished two fundraisers. Randa and Krita. 
>
> Randa reached almost Eur 15.000, Krita closed at amost 20K. Congrats to both! 
>
> I blogged yesterday about how we, imho, fail to reach enough people in our 
> quest for more freedom [1]. That had of course a wider scope - but KDE is a 
> part of this struggle. I know we don't all share this as a highest goal - we 
> care about many different things. 
>
> But for sure, most of these goals would greatly benefit from improved funding 
> of our e.V. And funding would go better if we managed to reach more of our 
> audience - KDE *users*. 
>
> The question I ask myself is: what percentage of KDE users had the 
> opportunity to contribute to our fund raisers? How many *knew* about it? 
>
> 1% perhaps? A little more? Even less? It is certainly hard to estimate. Why 
> does it matter? If it IS around 1%, it means we can reach far more people - 
> and have an easier time reaching our goals. 
>
> I think in these two fundraisers we went to the limit of our 'natural' reach. 
> I can't believe we can blog and tweet and share MORE than we did. There is 
> simply no order of magnitude growth possible there. We need another solution. 
>
> So, let me be bold and give a suggestion (that isn't new at all [2]): 
> lets use our *software* to reach out to our users and tell them how they 
> could help us. 
>
> Right now, we depend on users actively reaching out to us, to read planet 
> KDE, our dot and kde.org, to find out how to help. Let's make it easier. 
> Let's reach out to them. 
>
> I'm not suggesting a irremovable flashing banner on the panel and pink fluffy 
> bunnies running over the window decoration, carrying signs "donate to KDE". 
> Perhaps unicorns. Certainly no bunnies ;-) 
>
> No, goal is to INFORM our users that they could participate, help us, in 
> various ways. In a decent way. With the simple option to ignore us. 
>
> And yes, there are some technical difficulties, and we'd have to work with 
> the distributions. I'm sure we can have a conversation about that - but I'd 
> like to know first: do we *want* this in the first place? Because if we 
> *want* it, I am certain we can *do* it. We're KDE ;-) 
>
> If we decide we do, let's talk where and how. 
>
> /J 
>
> [1] http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2014/07/puppy-eyes-versus-freedom.html 
> [2] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=140483544104310&w=2 and this has 
> been discussed by many people over the years. Time to take action?
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