On 23 December 2014 at 21:45, Boudewijn Rempt <b...@valdyas.org> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > >> We had opportunity to learn about the positive example of Krita. I >> don't extrapolate to other projects. Fundraising for *single* >> sub-project is a part time job alone or two, with incredibly >> intelligent people knowing the domain (art), with project's brand >> present at conference booths. >> Most likely for large apps we need business partners for that to >> happen (Krita had one), to get them we need ability to align to their >> needs, whatever that means in every specific case. > > Well, KO GmbH wasn't involved with the Krita fundraiser at all -- that was > purely a volunteer effort in the Krita community. When we're out of the 2.9 > crunch, we'll have to do another one, work on that will start in January, > and we really should go live with it in March.
Strictly speaking, true, but what I mean: KO in this case were the enablers. Krita was a quite widely used and finished app prior to the fundraising efforts. So risks of Catch-22 situations like these were reduced: [User] I'll start using your product and maybe even support you if you a add feature FOO; [Dev] We have this fundraising exactly for the feature FOO. [User] -EINVAL > The topics will be animation, osx, python scripting and making krita faster > than photoshop, I expect. Cool to see this phase... -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community