Am 11.09.2013 um 21:28 schrieb Gregory Casamento: > The issue is that the money will be under the FSF's control. I would much > rather this be an independent effort since we would have absolute control > over where and how the money is spent.
Yes, that would probably be better. > The FSF is, primarily, an advocacy organization not a fundraising > organization. Well, let me share two immediate thoughts: * GNU(step) is one of the core FSF projects. What is the message to the world if a GNU project "circumvents" FSF? Do we have a problem with FSF? * why does it work for Replicant or MediaGoblin (or doesn't it)? Nikolaus > > Greg > > On Wednesday, September 11, 2013, Germán Arias wrote: > 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, > > > > > > -- > Gregory Casamento > Open Logic Corporation, Principal Consultant > yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa > (240)274-9630 (Cell) > http://www.gnustep.org > http://heronsperch.blogspot.com > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
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