On 02/16/2012 12:38 AM, Till Theato wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/13/2012 11:22 PM, derrick parkhurst wrote: >> I have three suggestions, based on our experiences. First, ask for >> more money. Novacut took away $28k with 800 supporters. You really >> can only do this thing once in a blue moon and so why not go for >> broke? Second, people > > We will probably ask for more money to cover the perks or other > promotional things, but what should we do with that much? I cannot > work for much longer and the others aren't able to work full time on > Kdenlive at all. I also currently don't see a need for hardware or > anything like this. > Other projects are raising money all the time. So when there's a need > again we could launch a new campaign. Of course this probably won't > work when $25k are requested twice...
Agree, but you should at least go a little higher than 2200 ? or there won't be anything left after all expenses :) >> will want something new, better, faster. If your main pitch is >> refactoring, I'm afraid your request may fall on deaf ears. If you >> offer some new and interesting features, that will play better. >> Finally, be sure to offer some > > To be able to offer this refactoring is absolutely necessary (at least > in my opinion). and in mine too, I spend half the time implementing a new feature and the other half trying to figure out which part of the old code prevents it from working correctly. > So we got to tell people about the new possibilities > arising from the refactoring efforts. http://quickgit.kde.org/index.php?p=kdenlive.git&a=blob_plain&h=01739df2b7c6ef689c9706f0e681e672081fa220&f=TODO and maybe the unassigned features on mantis could give some input http://www.kdenlive.org/mantis/search.php?project_id=1&handler_id=-2&severity_id=10&sticky_issues=off&sortby=last_updated&dir=DESC&hide_status_id=90 Simon
