Fundraising in KDE

[Julien Tremblay McLellan]

Training events for fundraising for non-profits. The one below is the one I
found the most interesting.

Reluctant Fundraiser? Not A Fundraiser? Not A Problem!
When: Sept. 29th, 2020 – 1:00pm Eastern
Cindy Wagman will give guidance and encouragement to those who need to
fundraise, but would really rather do anything but.


I ran into these with my daily news reading:

https://nonprofithub.org/hubinars/

https://nonprofithub.org/hubinars/

Hope this can help somewhat

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 4:00 AM Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:

> On Sunday, 27 September 2020 21:36:46 CEST Vincent Pinon wrote:
>
>
> > Very regularly, we have video editors asking how to give money (amounts
> > 10€ to 100€) to boost development of that tool highly useful for them.
> > When we answer to give to KDE, who shares the infrastructure and funds
> > the sprints, they express they would prefer a more dedicated donation to
> > pay for development (bug solving, feature development...)
>
> At this point, I'd advise you to do what I did: create a foundation, get a
> bank account and take donations in. For applications like Blender, Krita,
> Kdenlive that's really the only way to go because your users and potential
> supporters won't understand an umbrella organizagtion like KDE.
>
> Especially once the majority of users is on Windows, the KDE story won't
> lead to donations. KDE needs to find its supporters in the free software
> and Linux world.
>
> > The tiny team can't answer these requests on spare time (or it takes
> > years). No one is ready to abandon their job, finding a good person to
> > hire seems not easy, maybe contracting a consultant would be a
> > solution... But then how to gather the funds? As KDE eV can't allocate
> > money to a specific project (if I understand correctly), we would need
> > to create a new structure: none of us is interested in this kind of
> > paperworks and risks associated (having read about Krita Fundations
> > difficulties few years back)...
> >
> > Also, we know that our Windows downloads are increasing by tens of
> > thousands every month, it was also suggested to ask for 1€ (or free
> > amount) for these binaries (as GCompris also did sometime), but again,
> > where to put that money ? It could be for eV (?)
> > I haven't been motivated to look at the stores stuff, as long as we
> > don't know where to put the money...
>
> Don't ask for too little. A 1€ application will be perceived as having
> less value and utility than a 10€ application. We went for 10€ on all
> platforms because we both wanted to undercut our 39,99€ competitors (Clip
> Studio and Affinity Photo) and because we wanted store customers to believe
> that Krita has a value.
>
> > So my questions are :
> > can eV gather money from Kdenlive binaries on Windows ? (and maybe Mac
> > someday, both thanks to Craft and binary-factory \o/)
> > Can it use it (or part of) to pay consultants on that project ? If not,
> > is anyone ready to help for the extra administrative work ?
> >
> > It's true that not accepting these donations maybe holds back that
> > project from increasing as rapidly as many users are expecting...
> >
> > Thanks for all the great things in KDE,
> >
> > Vincent
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> https://www.krita.org
>
>
>

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