-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/13/2012 11:11 PM, Simon A. Eugster wrote: > > On 02/13/2012 09:42 PM, Till Theato wrote: >> >> Hey, >> >> before setting up a the campaign a few things might require >> further discussion: >> >> - - Goal: 2200? (currently about 2910 US$). For that money (minus >> all > > I think you could well go to 2800 ? for two months. > >> the fees) I will work in May and June. 8h/day, 20 days in May and >> also in June. In case we receive less money I could still work >> for some time on Kdenlive but I cannot say yet how long it will >> then. What should we do in case we receive more money? Eventually >> I will be able to append a week or two in July but what about the >> rest? > > I'd postpone this decision ... You can still think about it in case > you get a lot more money :) Maybe also depends on the progress you > made etc.
But we need to tell people what will happen with any money left... > >> - - Perks: Some ideas that would be relatively easy to do: 10$ >> donor listing on website 25$ donor listing, vote for feature, >> proposals to be discussed with us/me beforehand 50$ donor >> listing, 2 votes for feature 100$ donor listing, feature within >> reason (to be discussed with us/me beforehand) 500$ donor >> listing, "big" feature (...) > > Clapperboards? Postcard from your country? Kdenlive stickers? > http://uk.moo.com/products/stickers/ Some local speciality? (like > we have Swiss Army knives, or edibles) That sounds good. I will have a look into these ideas! We will have to see how much the goal has to be raised then. > > >> well, they are not very creative but at least they would allow us >> to start the campaign quickly without much further preparation. >> Other perks could be added later on (e.g. maybe someone >> volunteers to design > > and pay :-] Sponsors, anyone? I'd like to have a Kdenlive tee as > well. They often have large minimum ... editions? (you know what I > mean) like 250 or so. Would be very cool if we could find a sponsor > for this. Maybe we could even get some higher-quality T-shirts > (thicker fabric). Or we go for a higher donation goal, so that we can cover that, too. > >> a t-shirt?). I am not that certain on whether the donation for >> feature thing really is a good idea. What do you guys think? > > I think you'll have enough of work to do with refactoring already! > >> - - Campaign description: Maybe someone wants to write one ;)? > > Didn't we have marketing pros here on the list? :) > > Kdenlive is one of the best known video editors for Linux and is > OpenSource (free!). It is aiming towards > professional[?]/semi-professional users [please correct my grammar > if necessary]. Lately a few important features have been added: * > Proxy clips for fluent H.264 editing also on slow machines * Color > scopes for color correction * [sorry, I'm really not up-to-date :( > please add more] > > However we found that the architecture of kdenlive ? which reaches > back to 2002 ? is not up-to-date anymore and discourages new > developers to join our project. Additionally, new features take > much longer to implement and contain more bugs than they should. > > This is where your donation jumps in! It will allow Till Theato to > give our source code a shiny new look and set the base for new > features like different timeline views, scripting, a more > comfortable titler [if you really want to touch this part too :)] > and [insert all features from the bug tracker here]. > > Till will work whole May and June on Kdenlive. > > > Just a suggestion (which took me ages to write). RFC. :) Thanks for you efforts! > >> - - Video: I would prefer to add it later on, so that we can >> start soon. > > yep > > Simon > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk88P2IACgkQzwEyz7QP6nTqywCaA4BMNlLfVQIQ1OdjRoSyAzkQ hBIAoNDKyXy91bxDNHCe5gL/LfFJYnHY =DG9j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
