[Kdenlive-devel] IndieGoGo campaign details

[Till Theato]

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On 02/13/2012 11:11 PM, Simon A. Eugster wrote:
> 
> On 02/13/2012 09:42 PM, Till Theato wrote:
>> 
>> 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.

But we need to tell people what will happen with any money left...

> 
>> - - 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)

That sounds good. I will have a look into these ideas!
We will have to see how much the goal has to be raised then.

> 
> 
>> 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).

Or we go for a higher donation goal, so that we can cover that, too.

> 
>> 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. :)

Thanks for you efforts!

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