On 11/10/2014 08:00 PM, Tres Finocchiaro wrote: > 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.
At least Harry would have secure employment for a long 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.... Kickstarter (or Indiegogo, et al.) is just one option. We could always just ask people to donate to the project directly... we already have a donate button on the homepage and an account where the money goes, right? > 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. We already have most of undo support. And complete undo will happen eventually. We talked about this earlier (when I first presented this idea) but I still think it's just a matter of framing the issue. This 2.0 plan could literally be a "make it or break it" moment for LMMS... a good push to bring LMMS into a truly pro-quality free DAW. And there are features we can put on the table, I think. Better JACK support, LV2 support, sampletrack recording... maybe even external hardware synth support - route MIDI from LMMS to a hardware synth and record the audio back into a sampletrack. These are all things I could see being feasible with the combination of the 2.0 plan and a hired developer. I'm not saying these things are impossible to accomplish without a paid developer. If I thought that I wouldn't have started this 2.0 thing in the first place. But having a paid developer makes the process a lot smoother and increases the success probability by a fair margin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
