Fundraising and the Development Fund.

[Halla Rempt]

On donderdag 4 november 2021 06:07:30 CET Iván Yossi wrote:

> We could give more value to our devfund if the content developed is seen as a consecuence of their involvement in the fund. By this I mean we have to be much more verbose with the fund, and I don't mean to create spammy content on our social platforms posting messages like: "Join the devfund now", but more in the sense of, along a showcase/tutorial/blogpost add a visible legend such as: "This content is sponsored by painters like you: Join the devfund!". This will need content to add this type of call to action, we already have a youtube channel, but I think we could also add it to blogposts related to our work on krita, small tutorials and short showcases of new features, which could be in the form of short videos (60 secs). Im not sure how feasible this is, but it could be an interesting route to keep the fund relevant and avoid it being lost as a background banner.
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> With this I think I reinforce what emmet and eoin are stating: we need to show a relationship between the investment into the devfund and visible development results. It does not need to be a new end user feature showcase, I believe a blogpost: analyzing libraries, text tools, summarizing thoughts about a conference; is as important and interesting as part of the results of the devfund because they would not be possible without the fund and they improve krita's development.
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Well, who is going to help me write krita.org news stories about development that are fun to read and will excite people? That's basically the only public channel we have, other than youtube, where development content isn't really appreciated.

Halla