[Kdenlive-devel] IndieGoGo campaign details

[Simon A. Eugster]

On 02/13/2012 09:42 PM, Till Theato wrote:
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> Hey,
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> before setting up a the campaign a few things might require further
> discussion:
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> - - Goal: 2200€ (currently about 2910 US$). For that money (minus all

I think you could well go to 2800 € for two months.

> the fees) I will work in May and June. 8h/day, 20 days in May and also
> in June. In case we receive less money I could still work for some
> time on Kdenlive but I cannot say yet how long it will then. What
> should we do in case we receive more money? Eventually I will be able
> to append a week or two in July but what about the rest?

I'd postpone this decision ... You can still think about it in case you 
get a lot more money :) Maybe also depends on the progress you made etc.

> - - Perks: Some ideas that would be relatively easy to do:
> 10$ donor listing on website
> 25$ donor listing, vote for feature, proposals to be discussed with
> us/me beforehand
> 50$ donor listing, 2 votes for feature
> 100$ donor listing, feature within reason (to be discussed with us/me
> beforehand)
> 500$ donor listing, "big" feature (...)

Clapperboards?
Postcard from your country?
Kdenlive stickers? http://uk.moo.com/products/stickers/
Some local speciality? (like we have Swiss Army knives, or edibles)


> well, they are not very creative but at least they would allow us to
> start the campaign quickly without much further preparation. Other
> perks could be added later on (e.g. maybe someone volunteers to design

and pay
:-]
Sponsors, anyone? I'd like to have a Kdenlive tee as well.
They often have large minimum ... editions? (you know what I mean) like 
250 or so. Would be very cool if we could find a sponsor for this. Maybe 
we could even get some higher-quality T-shirts (thicker fabric).

> a t-shirt?).
> I am not that certain on whether the donation for feature thing really
> is a good idea. What do you guys think?

I think you'll have enough of work to do with refactoring already!

> - - Campaign description: Maybe someone wants to write one ;)?

Didn't we have marketing pros here on the list? :)

Kdenlive is one of the best known video editors for Linux and is 
OpenSource (free!). It is aiming towards 
professional[?]/semi-professional users [please correct my grammar if 
necessary]. Lately a few important features have been added:
* Proxy clips for fluent H.264 editing also on slow machines
* Color scopes for color correction
* [sorry, I'm really not up-to-date :( please add more]

However we found that the architecture of kdenlive – which reaches back 
to 2002 – is not up-to-date anymore and discourages new developers to 
join our project. Additionally, new features take much longer to 
implement and contain more bugs than they should.

This is where your donation jumps in! It will allow Till Theato to give 
our source code a shiny new look and set the base for new features like 
different timeline views, scripting, a more comfortable titler [if you 
really want to touch this part too :)] and [insert all features from the 
bug tracker here].

Till will work whole May and June on Kdenlive.


Just a suggestion (which took me ages to write). RFC. :)

> - - Video: I would prefer to add it later on, so that we can start soon.

yep

Simon