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Subject: Re: Fundraising in KDE
From: Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date: 2020-09-28 7:59:56
Message-ID: 2618820.BEx9A2HvPv () boud-thinkpad-t470p
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On Sunday, 27 September 2020 21:36:46 CEST Vincent Pinon wrote:
> Very regularly, we have video editors asking how to give money (amounts
> 10€ to 100€) to boost development of that tool highly useful for \
> them. When we answer to give to KDE, who shares the infrastructure and \
> funds the sprints, they express they would prefer a more dedicated \
> donation to pay for development (bug solving, feature development...)
At this point, I'd advise you to do what I did: create a foundation, get a \
bank account and take donations in. For applications like Blender, Krita, \
Kdenlive that's really the only way to go because your users and potential \
supporters won't understand an umbrella organizagtion like KDE.
Especially once the majority of users is on Windows, the KDE story won't \
lead to donations. KDE needs to find its supporters in the free software \
and Linux world.
> The tiny team can't answer these requests on spare time (or it takes
> years). No one is ready to abandon their job, finding a good person to
> hire seems not easy, maybe contracting a consultant would be a
> solution... But then how to gather the funds? As KDE eV can't allocate
> money to a specific project (if I understand correctly), we would need
> to create a new structure: none of us is interested in this kind of
> paperworks and risks associated (having read about Krita Fundations
> difficulties few years back)...
>
> Also, we know that our Windows downloads are increasing by tens of
> thousands every month, it was also suggested to ask for 1€ (or free
> amount) for these binaries (as GCompris also did sometime), but again,
> where to put that money ? It could be for eV (?)
> I haven't been motivated to look at the stores stuff, as long as we
> don't know where to put the money...
Don't ask for too little. A 1€ application will be perceived as having \
less value and utility than a 10€ application. We went for 10€ on all \
platforms because we both wanted to undercut our 39,99€ competitors (Clip \
Studio and Affinity Photo) and because we wanted store customers to believe \
that Krita has a value.
> So my questions are :
> can eV gather money from Kdenlive binaries on Windows ? (and maybe Mac
> someday, both thanks to Craft and binary-factory \o/)
> Can it use it (or part of) to pay consultants on that project ? If not,
> is anyone ready to help for the extra administrative work ?
>
> It's true that not accepting these donations maybe holds back that
> project from increasing as rapidly as many users are expecting...
>
> Thanks for all the great things in KDE,
>
> Vincent
>
>
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