>"So I'm thinking this could be a good thing if we could get a paid developer
>who knows RT-audio coding on board in time for the big 2.0 effort."
I know many people will disagree with me but I feel like this is something that
really goes against the FOSS mentality. I think Free Software is about more
than features and I think the fact that everyone who currently works on LMMS do
so because they want to and not because they are paid is a feature in itself
and one we should be proud of. Personally I'd rather have less features and
still know that it was 100% community driven, done by the community, for the
community and never just paid for by the community. Also I think its true that
once people hand over money their expectations become unrealistic. Its nice
when people expect little from a free project then get blown away when the
community produces something wonderful. Just a thought.
On Monday, 10 November 2014, 18:00, Tres Finocchiaro
<[email protected]> 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.
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....
I know that doesn't help your question.
From a statistics perspective, we have about 2,200 Facebook likes and about 500
active viewers. That means when we post a status update, it reaches about 1/4
of our total followers. Google plus figures are probably inaccurate as there
would be too much overlap to consider it a separate pool.
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.
- [email protected]
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Vesa <[email protected]> wrote:
So I'm thinking this could be a good thing if we could get a paid
>developer who knows RT-audio coding on board in time for the big 2.0 effort.
>
>I talked recently with HarryHaaren who said he could possibly be
>available to work as a paid developer for LMMS. This would be most
>welcome and would help with the development tremendously.
>
>So what we need now is someone who's in touch with the larger LMMS
>userbase to somehow gauge how many people would be willing to
>contribute/donate in some way in order to realize this plan. Maybe do a
>poll on facebook or something? Does facebook work like that? I don't
>know how the facebooks work.
>
>If it seems like gathering enough funds to pay at least for a month or
>two of developer time would be possible, then we'd need someone to
>organize the fundraising campaign (possibly via a crowdfunding service
>such as Kickstarter or the like). But there's no rush, we still have 1.1
>to release and then 1.2 (although if this plan pans out we can probably
>freeze and rush out 1.2 a bit faster).
>
>
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