[kde-community] Fundraising

[victorhck]

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El 10/07/14 12:10, Jos Poortvliet escribió:
> 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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Hi!

I'm just an (simply) user, and days ago I was thinking to joining the
game (thanks Albert for the answer!).
I realized that with KDE for me is more easy to get the freedom that I
want to my desktop!
I blogged about the Randa crowdfundig to spread about it, and donate
to the free software project you want, and now I want to follow my own
advices! :þ

Is a good poit some kind of widget, or something like that. But I
think that is important to say to the people what are going to do KDE
with that money...

And why not ask and share the reasons to the users who actually
donate? Maybe they have some answer to questions for undecided like me! ;)

my 2cnts

've phun!

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