I think hiring Harry is a great idea. Harry is a top class developer with
lots of motivation - and a great, great guy too!
Getting too much money should not be a problem. These money can be put to a
more long-term relationship with the developer. Don't let it stop you!
Louigi. (wants LMMS to become a "serios DAW" and believes it is realistic!)
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Tres Finocchiaro <
[email protected]> wrote:
> I would say "we should be so lucky"!
>
>
> Yeah, it sounds rather romantic to envision tens of thousands or even
> hundreds of thousands of dollars/euros to the project's disposal, but it's
> quite the opposite actually. Unless we have an immediate objective for
> such money, we'd be in a very difficult spot to know how to distribute it.
> Finding developers like Harry is a good start, but putting more and more
> money at a single developer won't make the code generate any faster, and
> managing these types of campaigns can send us to the moon and back.
> (figuratively speaking... let me explain).
>
> For example... Musopen, started with an $11,000 USD budget, but instead
> raised $68,000
> <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Musopen/record-and-release-free-music-without-copyrights>
> (2,288
> donaters). Aaron Dunn -- the owner of Musopen -- decided to take the FOSS
> approach at Chopin scores by making them free, but in a very high quality
> and modern format. That was 4 years ago. Good, bad or indifferent, the
> money he raised was enough to send him around the world looking for the
> best of the best.... He sent this email to me last month:
>
>> [...]
>> As for the music, we will begin uploading the Chopin music we have so far
>> to the website so you, and everyone else, can begin downloading and
>> enjoying it. As we complete the set, I will send periodic updates here, and
>> add it to a new Chopin composer page we are adding to the site. (Preview:
>> https://dev.musopen.org/composer/frederic-chopin/ )
>> Apologies this has taken so long, but we are glad to be able to get
>> everything shipped out now.
>> Please feel free to email me if you have any questions or concerns, and
>> thank you again for supporting this project.
>
>
> So Aaron Dunn has spent the last 4 years of his life managing a
> Kickstarter he created with an initial $11,000 budget. IIRC, Vesa's
> estimation for funding LMMS was $8,000. Unless we have an equivalent to
> Aaron Dunn in our community -- capable of dedicating an abundance of time
> to this -- I feel very strongly that we have to be careful how much money
> we accept.
>
> As far as this statement:
>
> we already have a donate button on the homepage and an account where the
>> money goes, right?
>
>
> Yes, it currently goes to [email protected] (currently this redirects to
> my personal paypal account which was decided by Lukas and Toby).
>
> -Tres
>
>
>
>
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