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Re: [Kdenlive-devel] IndieGoGo campaign details
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From: wille <wil...@gm...> - 2012-02-14 15:19:48
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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 <der...@gm...> > Hi, > > I have three suggestions, based on our experiences. First, ask for more > money. Novacut took away $28k with 800 supporters. You really can only do > this thing once in a blue moon and so why not go for broke? Second, people > will want something new, better, faster. If your main pitch is refactoring, > I'm afraid your request may fall on deaf ears. If you offer some new and > interesting features, that will play better. Finally, be sure to offer some > larger dollar sponsorship levels targeted at businesses, 1k, 2k, 5k,10k. > You can't get what you don't ask for. > > Best > Derrick > > > > -- > Derrick Parkhurst, Ph.D. > @thirtysixthspan > (405) 596-4697 > der...@gm... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The only video recorder connected to the Cloud - http://theOpusCapture.com<http://theopuscapture.com/> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Need video of your next event? http://OpusVideoProductions.com<http://opusvideoproductions.com/> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Oklahoma City Coworking Collaborative - http://okcCoCo.com<http://okccoco.com/> > > > > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Simon A. Eugster <sim...@gm...>wrote: > >> >> On 02/13/2012 09:42 PM, Till Theato wrote: >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >> > Hey, >> > >> > before setting up a the campaign a few things might require further >> > discussion: >> > >> > - - Goal: 2200€ (currently about 2910 US$). 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 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Try before you buy = See our experts in action! >> The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers >> is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, >> Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 >> _______________________________________________ >> Kdenlive-devel mailing list >> Kde...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kdenlive-devel >> > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try before you buy = See our experts in action! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. 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