On 07/29/2014 05:17 PM, Rob Kudla wrote: > Regardless of the size of the userbase, the thing about Kickstarter is that > the two kinds of software projects that normally get funded are (a) games > or (b) "fun" apps. The only example of the latter I can think of was a > graphics-heavy Android homescreen that got funded last year and as far as I > know, has never come to fruition anyway.
There are examples of open source projects getting funding from Kickstarter. Openshot video editor recently had a very succesful campaign, raising (IIRC) tens of thousands of dollars. On a smaller scale: A GIMP developer recently had a succesful campaign for implementing a single new feature for GIMP. > This is definitely more of an infrastructure thing, and I don't think we > can present it as sexy enough to get people to pledge money to achieve it. We can word it as "keep LMMS alive". Raise the stakes... > This does seem like exactly the sort of thing the GSoC would be good for, > but I wonder if you'd need to throw an Android or ChromeOS angle in there > to get Google to fund it nowadays. I don't think so, there are plenty of projects in GSoC that have nothing to do with Android/ChromeOS. > Come to think of it, having an Android port of LMMS could be worth a > Kickstarter in and of itself Maybe in the future. Best to take it one kickstarter at a time... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
