[Kdenlive-devel] IndieGoGo campaign details

Tue Feb 14 15:19:16 UTC 2012

Do you know the Zazzle git shop? I think it can be a good option to give
gifts to donators.

The Gnome Community has a shop in there: http://www.zazzle.com/gnome

I'm new in kdenlive community, but if you need some help in this campaign,
I can help.

regards,
wille

2012/2/13 derrick parkhurst <derrick.parkhurst at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
>  I have three suggestions, based on our experiences. First, ask for more
> money. Novacut took away $28k with 800 supporters. You really can only do
> this thing once in a blue moon and so why not go for broke? Second, people
> will want something new, better, faster. If your main pitch is refactoring,
> I'm afraid your request may fall on deaf ears. If you offer some new and
> interesting features, that will play better. Finally, be sure to offer some
> larger dollar sponsorship levels targeted at businesses, 1k, 2k, 5k,10k.
> You can't get what you don't ask for.
>
> Best
> Derrick
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> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Simon A. Eugster <simon.eu at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>
>> On 02/13/2012 09:42 PM, Till Theato wrote:
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>> > Hey,
>> >
>> > before setting up a the campaign a few things might require further
>> > discussion:
>> >
>> > - - Goal: 2200€ (currently about 2910 US$). 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
>>
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