Krita September Fundraiser

[Lays Rodrigues]

Just adding,
Here is the template used for 2017 End of The Year Campaign,
https://www.kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2017/

I had the help of #kde-promo guys on the text, and you could get
inspiration from that for a campaign for Krita.

Cheers,

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 6:41 PM Scott Petrovic <scottpetrovic at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We do have the Krita donations getting shown on the krita.org website.
> https://krita.org/en/   that is somewhat like a fundraiser.
>
> That is a live view of all the donations coming in through the Paypal
> account for the current month.
>
> We could utilize that mechanism and have one month's donations all go
> towards a fundraiser (no middle man like kickstarter). It wouldn't be too
> hard to make a custom fundraising template page on krita.org where we
> could have a progress bar and goals similar to how a kickstarter page would
> look. Even extras like "3 days remaining!" I did something similar a while
> ago when we were trying to get out of the tax situation. I did all the
> programming for that and it wouldn't be too hard to spruce up a variation.
>
> Do we need to have"prizes" or other swag that needs to be kept track of?
> What about an email list to communicate with people that have donated?  Another
> potential issue with my approach would be if the funds are all going to the
> Krita foundation, or Boud's account  that deals with merchandise and other
> stuff. Maybe we should keep this one much simpler and not have email lists
> and voting.
>
> For the goals, I guess we would need to just scope out the work a bit to
> see how many bugs and polish items could be done with different budget
> amounts. Just saying "bugs" might be too vague. If we can be a bit more
> specific with things like "text tools polish and improvements" or "finally
> make color smudge brush multi-threaded" would be much more appealing.
> "Polish" for us is "new features" for most people.
>
> Scott
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> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 2:11 AM, Kenny Coyle <kenny at heloo.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Boudewijn*,*
>>
>> Thanks for getting in touch,
>>
>> There are a few things that we had looked at in the past to help with
>> this sort of thing, so we might be able to help out.
>>
>> Are there any key goals that Dmitry is going to be working on in the near
>> future that we can focus on? I'm wondering what sort of copy we can use as
>> a "hook."
>>
>> What sort of timescales do you have in mind?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kenny.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 12:22 PM Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We are planning to do a fund raising campaign for Krita in September.
>>> We're
>>> not entirely sure, though, what we'll be doing. The focus won't be
>>> features,
>>> like in our previous kickstarter campaigns, but stability and polish.
>>> That
>>> feels like it won't work for a kickstarter, so we're kind of wondering
>>> whether
>>> there are other platforms that are better suited to a theme like this.
>>>
>>> We want to use this to generate publicity, we don't have a fixed funding
>>> goal,
>>> though the purpose is to continue having enough to fund dmitry's work on
>>> Krita.
>>>
>>> --
>>> https://www.valdyas.org | https://www.krita.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>

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