2010/8/25 Dan Dennedy <d...@dennedy.org>: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Simon Eugster <simon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear friends, >> >> http://kdenlive.org/forum/donate >> One cannot donate to kdenlive right now, right? >> >> I assume other people might want to donate as well. But could we make >> good use of the money? > > As someone who used to accept them for Kino, I suggest that you first > come up with intended uses - the more specific the better. Even > proudly display them alongside the donate button so people appreciate > the clear direction and perhaps even more motivated. Here are some > ideas: > > - travel and hotel costs for a developer to attend and optionally > present at an event (there are so many) > - special equipment which we might want to provide support for within > Kdenlive: e.g. Blackmagic Design > - technical books related to video, editing, compositing, etc. > - a charity > >> If not, we might mention somewhere on the web page that, at the >> moment, we survive without donations :) > > I received a fair amount of donations for Kino, but not anywhere near > enough to be interesting (i.e. provide a living). So, I shut it down > because I did not really need the money, and I felt people should > donate to more worthy causes. In hindsight, if I had established a > specific goal such as above, I likely would have achieved that goal, > which would have been interesting and beneficial.
Thanks for sharing your experience! I find the idea about special equipment very interesting. This is something we should consider in future imho (if Dev resources are available). Simon PS: I just don't thrust my eyes anymore. Quote from http://www.blackmagic-design.com/davinci/resolve/ : «Now avalible for both Mac and Linux, the true quality and power of DaVinci is now affordable for everyone!» Linux??? (Sorry for the offtopic.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Kdenlive-devel mailing list Kdenlive-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kdenlive-devel
