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Subject: Re: 2015 funding thoughts
From: Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date: 2014-10-24 10:46:35
Message-ID: 2678786.g7pou0MuIN () linux-zth1 ! site
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On Wednesday 22 October 2014 Oct 19:22:03 Sven Langkamp wrote:
> That's sad, although I already feared that it would happen. I assume that
> KO also will be getting out of the remaining Calligra too (not that much
> anyway), right? Paying to you and Dmitry it certainly going to be hard.
But not impossible, I hope...
> Any estimates for the subscriptions?
Not yet. Right now, the development fund is only about a hundred euros a month...
> I think the animation support needs at least three months to fix the
> remaining issues and integrate into the main application. The additions for
> that project would be another 3-4 months.
Hm... So much? That's going to have to be compressed a lot :-(
>
> Another big item is port to Qt 5 which should also happen in 2015. That
> should take not that much time, but also needs to be scheduled carefully.
>
Yes. At the calligra sprint we discussed that, too, and planned to do that \
immediately after the 2.9 release. A straight port first, run all the scripts, make \
sure everything builds, then disable all applications from compilation, then let the \
maintainers (if any) re-enable their applications when they start porting the \
applications properly. It should lead to a 3.0 in about three months, in my \
estimation. I'm also guessing it will lead to shedding a lot of dead wood in \
calligra.
> I think it's important that we go back to shorter release cycles as 2.9 and
> not start too many projects at once. Ideally we would be ready to ship a
> development project every 3-4 months. Currently we have sort of a mess due
> to mvc and animation running concurrently. A shorter development cycle
> would bring new features to the users faster.
Yes. Though postponing 2.9 to December was purely because we started the kickstarter \
project too late.
> I think we should also try Patreon. Form what I saw that seems to be a lot
> more interesting for people than custom development funds. Looking at other
> Patreon stuff it looks like the average is amount per person is about 10$
> for bigger project and we would maybe need between 1000 and 1300 supporters
> to fund everything, but 600 could get a half the amount already.
I will try to set that up this weekend. I'm still not sure how to make it go well, \
but we cannot afford to let any stone unturned.
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Boudewijn Rempt
http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org
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