[Kdenlive-devel] Kdenlive Kickstarter

[Dan Dennedy]

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/10/the-state-of-diaspora-and-fund.php

After this and Novacut, I feel that most open source projects run
through Kickstarter end up receiving a lot of resentment. The
community funding model does not match the user expectations.

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Simon A. Eugster <simon.eu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19.09.2011 19:32, Till Theato wrote:
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>> On 09/17/2011 11:10 PM, Ernie Zahn wrote:
>>> Hey Simon Sounds great! I'll draft a script then?
>>
>> Wait, wait, wait ... (just a little bit ;)) but thanks for the will to
>> take care of this!
>>
>> There is no 100% certainty that I'll be able to spend this time on
>> Kdenlive, so we need an alternative just in case.
>> I'd also like to hear opinions from the others about how money donated
>> to Kdenlive should be used. Maybe someone else would also be able to
>> spend some time on Kdenlive? Maybe Hardware?
>>
>>>
>>> @Till, I think the fact that Novacut just did one is a good reason
>>>   to do one now. Kdenlive is public and is waaay past proof of
>>> concept. Users can test drive it for themselves. We could advertise
>>> at as funding for version 1.0. I can speak to that personally since
>>> I haven't been developing but it's a thought.
>>
>> We then have to make sure we don't promise to much, so we don't
>> frustrate anyone.
>
> Hehe. Sometimes I wonder if we at kdenlive are too honest. Others promise a
> better world and want money before they even know how to do it.
>
> I saw some smaller projects on kickstarter as well. What about putting just
> your 2 months on kickstarter as soon as you know you can spend your time on
> doing it? I'm not sure if a bigger campaign would help us too much at the
> moment, since our main limit is not money but time. And more programmers ;)
>
> Simon