On 2020-09-23 11:26, [email protected] wrote: >> Yes, messaging -- for Blender it's easy because there are many companies >> funding them for whom blender is a complement that replaces expensive >> alternatives. It's different for KDE, so that needs good thinking. >> >> Also... Just like Blender, KDE probably needs to setup a second legal entity >> that can fund freelance developers for certain projects or even outright >> hire them. > > > This part is the tricky one to me. Where is the benefit for companies to > sponsor KDE? I mean we have a group of different organizations that use > Plasma > for example - but how can we leverage that in to donations? > > What would we or those developers sponsored be able to deliver to those > organisations that would justify their cost?
Organisations in general have A LOT of money. So I think we should focus on that. I have no statistics underlying my thoughts, but I imagine that hundreds of thousands of companies and organisations worldwide are using one of the KDE maintained operating systems like Neon or Kubuntu. They are saving A HUGE amount of money by doing this. So, why not separating the userbase into a private and an organisational part? By doing this, we could target the later one in a better and more intensive way. For sure, this is already done in some way, by having different type of donations. But I mean maybe going a step further, maybe by releasing different types of Neon and Kubuntu? (private / organisational edition?) This could solve also in some way the problem with the abuse the freeriders do. We could release the new edition under a special license we could workout together. > > The one thing I think could be done is contacting those organisations and > simply dig through their usage, needs and wants and see what we are missing. For sure, it would be great to establish a deeper connection with the organisations and to see, what their needs are. On 2020-09-24 11:42, Nicolas Fella wrote: > I would be cautious about creating a system that allows targeted > donations for specific features/requests. I don't want the e.V. to be in > a position where work is done/prioritized because it brings in money. I agree 100%. I think that the Organisations should have some kind of "vote", but at the end, the Community and the Developers should decide what to implement and what not. greez, Uli
