On 16/10/15 19:57, charles wrote: >>> Try to get in crowdfunded anti surveillance projects >>> like CommunityCube: >>> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/communitycubes/communitycube-lets-build-a-fair-internet/description >>> It will establish you further like abovementioned and will result in more >>> new users and developers. >> What's their business model? Social networks and open source projects >> are not allowed on Kickstarter, only profitable businesses. Selling >> boxes doesn't provide a good business reason to fund ongoing >> development. Look at your phone, it's probably beyond security support >> already, they want to sell you a new one... > If Kickstarter doesn't allow open source projects, then I don't > understand how Krita has run several successful campaigns through > them.[1][2][3] They do sell pro versions, but they are not targeted in > the kickstarters or even really mentioned at all. > > -Charles > > [1] > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-open-source-digital-painting-accelerate-deve > [2] > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-free-paint-app-lets-make-it-faster-than-phot > [3] https://krita.org/item/funding-krita/ Hmmm, this is interesting. Possibly they have changed the rules? I guess we may need to dig deeper?
https://www.kickstarter.com/rules https://www.kickstarter.com/rules/prohibited http://www.crowdcrux.com/do-software-campaigns-do-well-on-kickstarter/ (This one is old, repeats what I said) If we can in fact use Kickstarter then we still have the problems of a good pitch and goodies for people who give us money (ideally something more than branded merchandise), but it'd be well worth looking into... Is there a more restrictive policy somewhere else on the website?
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