We have to be careful too... when the FOSS community sees we are doing a crowdfunding, we'll likely get inundated with tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations when all we really want is enough for a single developer for a small amount of time.
This kickstarter thing isn't something to take lightly and is a slippery slope... The person running it can often find themselves in a position where they need to do crowdfunding as a full time job and I wouldn't wish that on an inexperienced project manager, nor someone that already has a full time job that would suffer or be terminated over this. There are also some kickbacks people expect, such as merchandise at certain donation levels. I've donated to quite a few of these campaigns and they all offer some pretty nice merchandise at various tier levels. I'm not sure we have someone capable and willing to do this from a kickstarter perspective. We may want to tread lightly on this topic or risk that it grows faster than what our team is prepared for.... I know that doesn't help your question. >From a statistics perspective, we have about 2,200 Facebook likes and about 500 active viewers. That means when we post a status update, it reaches about 1/4 of our total followers. Google plus figures are probably inaccurate as there would be too much overlap to consider it a separate pool. We also have KVR boards, Audacity and possibly the Blender community to ask for help from, but again, once such a campaign hits slashdot or reddit, people will want features like Undo support, and that may not necessarily be on the table. - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Vesa <dii....@nbl.fi> wrote: > So I'm thinking this could be a good thing if we could get a paid > developer who knows RT-audio coding on board in time for the big 2.0 > effort. > > I talked recently with HarryHaaren who said he could possibly be > available to work as a paid developer for LMMS. This would be most > welcome and would help with the development tremendously. > > So what we need now is someone who's in touch with the larger LMMS > userbase to somehow gauge how many people would be willing to > contribute/donate in some way in order to realize this plan. Maybe do a > poll on facebook or something? Does facebook work like that? I don't > know how the facebooks work. > > If it seems like gathering enough funds to pay at least for a month or > two of developer time would be possible, then we'd need someone to > organize the fundraising campaign (possibly via a crowdfunding service > such as Kickstarter or the like). But there's no rush, we still have 1.1 > to release and then 1.2 (although if this plan pans out we can probably > freeze and rush out 1.2 a bit faster). > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > LMMS-devel mailing list > LMMS-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel >
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