-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/2012 05:59 PM, derrick parkhurst wrote: > Hi! > > I'm the founder of a small video production and video product > startup ( http://theopushq.com) and we have used kdenlive and MLT > extensively for client work over the last couple years. I want to > thank everyone who has contributed to the project because it has > been enormously valuable for the survival of our business. I lead > our in-house software development efforts and so I follow this > email list. > > I want to encourage you to launch a kickstarter (or indiegogo) > campaign to help further fund development efforts. Of course, my > encouragement is in part motivated by self interest. We would love > to have a more powerful editing tool for our own use, but we > believe that there should be a free and open source alternatives > available to the public. That availability will also empower and > increase the number of people creating quality video. Our team is > passionate about open source and Linux as well as online video. > > I know that we, as I suspect many people and companies, would be > willing to contribute money to a kdenlive campaign. We have some > experience with these campaigns. I run our local coworking facility > and we just completed a successful Indiegogo campaign > (http://indiegogo.com/okccoco). It's actually not as hard or time > consuming as you might think. We spend just one week campaigning, > and raised almost $30k. Moreover the tax implications (in the US) > aren't all that troublesome, so long as you can show that you used > the funds for legitimate business expenses (e.g., software > developer salary). > > Please let me extend my help in whatever way is needed. We would > gladly donate funds early to the campaign to help show momentum, we > would be able to help write copy, we'll submit or videos as > examples if needed, we'll promote the campaign through our social > media channels, heck we can even offer up office space to > developers at our coworking facility, so long as they don't mind > living in Oklahoma. I'm sure that there are other ways that we > might be able to help too.
Hey Derrick, thanks for you encouragement! @Ernie, @all: I'd go for indiegogo then. If there are no further requirements preventing this I will open a campain as fast as possible, hopefully this week. We could then post the video at some later point. How are the efforts for a script going? regards Till > > Derrick > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk8vA3sACgkQzwEyz7QP6nSLkQCgjX+Cp9sI80wudWMWxHYnk2lh i1oAn0G5pbzbyDRmwTGVsMJWogXVuxr1 =liRs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Kdenlive-devel mailing list Kdenlive-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kdenlive-devel
