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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: Fundraising in KDE
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2020-09-24 9:12:02
Message-ID: 800470166.TtDcfvsPhm () xps
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El dimecres, 23 de setembre de 2020, a les 0:53:34 CEST, Carl Schwan va escriure:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Nate gave an excellent talk at the Akademy about how we can konquer the world
> and reach new horizons with our software. One of the first steep for Nate is
> for the e.V. to start paying more developers to work on core KDE technologies.

I agree that it would very much be a good idea for KDE to pay developers.

> Many thanks to all these wonderful people donating money to the e.V. but this
> is unfortunately not enough and if we want to start paying developers we will
> need to change our fundraising strategy radically.

Yes, let's not forget that software developers are relatively expensive, I've no idea \
how accurate https://www.daxx.com/blog/development-trends/it-salaries-software-developer-trends \
is, but i guess the numbers are not totally wrong from my own experience.

> One of the reasons why we don't raise as many funds as we could is because of
> the failure of our recurring donation system. 

I agree that's one of the reasons, personally i think the lack of clear goals is \
another reason, there's so much money you can get with the "give us money because \
we're nice" message we used in stuff like the end of year campaigns.

I think it's much easier to get people to donate if you give them a more direct \
reason "We're going to hire this person to work on XXX".

> And to achieve this vision, we need to grow, get more people involved, making
> sure that people can make a living by contributing to KDE and also contribute
> to the less fun area of KDE (the thing that nobody cares about but is really
> important like accessibility).

I understand what you were trying to say with this sentence, but please be careful \
when making blanket statements like that, you just insulted everyone that cares about \
accessibility and feels part of KDE by either telling them they are not part of KDE \
or that they don't care enough.

> I believe that if we were to communicate more clearly how by donating, we are
> able to improve our software and moving forward with our vision, it should
> encourage more people to donate.

Agreed.

Cheers,
  Albert


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