On 2013-09-11 10:58:53 -0600 Gregory Casamento <greg.casame...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys, > > I wanted to share that the kickstarter will most likely fail to get funding > at this point, but all isn't lost. > > There were a number of fundamental things that I learned from doing this: > > 1) Marketing ourselves correctly is extremely important... attracting > people to help us make the project better is key to making GNUstep better > for everyone > > 2) I should have been more realistic in my goals on the kickstarter. We > are, honestly around 10.3 in some APIs, 10.4 in others and 10.7 in others. > An honest assessment of our states on a class by class, method by method > level is what's really needed. > > 3) The period of the kickstarter should have been longer and the goal > should probably have been around 20K instead of 50K. > > The benefits of the campaign have been: > > 1) It has raised awareness of the project > > 2) It has let everyone know that we are still alive and that we are > following cocoa and we are both a development environment and an > environment which will allow porting. > > 3) It has brought us potential contributors whom I will contact ASAP. > > So, in any case, I am certain that doing the kickstarter was the right > thing to do. As I said at it's beginning, whether it's successful or not > it's effects in the first couple of days made it very clear that the net > effect was a positive one. > > I will need the help of the team to decide what the next campaign should be > aimed at and how best to go about that. I will send another email later > to follow up on this. In the interim, if anyone has any ideas about how we > could make it better, please reply here. :) I still think that request a fundraising campaign at FSF, is a good idea. Currently Replicant has its campaign, see: https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-launches-fundraising-program-for-replicant-the-fully-free-android-based-mobile-os Some months ago GNU MediaGoblin raises more than 60,000 dollars. I don't saying that GNUstep can attempt this amount. But, could help. Germán. > > Thanks everyone for all of the input, I've learned a great deal and it will > help us be more successful in our next attempt. > > Yours, > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
