Krita 2.9 Fundraiser
Boudewijn Rempt <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.events |
|---|---|
| Organization | valdyas |
| Message-ID | <3068755.Di9RJYLxQy__21219.1116101623$1400873158$gmane$org@linux-ixka.site> |
Hi! We're almost ready to kick off the much discussed Krita Fundraiser campaign! Here's the campaign page preview: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/2007830797?token=4060f48e I've attached a draft text for a dot article and a press release. Please give feedback -- and I would love some help spreading the press release as widely as possible, too! I've got another piece of news, too: it seems very likely that krita will exhibit at Siggraph 2014. I guess we're the first KDE project to go there :-) -- Boudewijn Rempt http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.
krita_fundraiser_dot_story.txt
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Dot Story Five years ago, the Krita team decided raise funds to raise Krita to the level of a professional applications (http://dot.kde.org/2009/12/02/krita-team-seeking-sponsorship-take-krita-next-level). That fundraiser was successful beyond all expectations and enabled us to release Krita 2.4, the first version of Krita ready for professional artists! Now, it’s time for another fundraiser, much, much more ambitious in scope! Dmitry Kazakov has worked full-time on Krita 2.8, and now we want him to work full-time on Krita 2.9, too. And it’s not just Dmitry: Sven, who has contributed to Krita for over ten years now, has recently finished university and is available as well. So, we’ve setup a base goal that would cover Dmitry’s work, a stretch goal that would cover Sven’s work and a super-stretch goal that would cover porting Krita to the last remaining OS we don’t cover: OS X. Since 2009, the Krita project has had three more sponsored projects, and all of them delivered: the Comics with Krita and Muses training DVD’s and Dmitry’s work on Krita 2.8. With Krita 2.4, Krita could be used by professional artists, with Krita 2.8, artists all over the world started taking notice and with 2.9, well -- we’ll make Krita irresistible! Help us spread the word and make this campaign a big success! XXX: kickstarter link and youtube video link to be added when we go life
krita-kickstarter-pressrelease.txt
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Press Release Monday, June 26th, 2014 The Krita Project Kicks off a Kickstarter After the successful release of Krita 2.8, the advanced open source digital painting application, the Krita Project is kicking off the work on the next release with a kickstarter campaign! Krita 2.8, released on Linux and Windows, has been a very successful release, with hundreds of thousands of downloads. Part of the secret was Dmitry Kazakov’s full-time work sponsored by the Krita Foundation which provided Krita with an insane number of awesome features (http://krita.org/aboutkrita2.8_sm.pdf). For Krita 2.9 we go for a repeat performance! And we’re going to try and double it, too, and have two people work on Krita full-time. That’s the first stretch goal. And as a super-stretch goal, we intend to port Krita to OS X, too! Together with our artist community we created a set of goals to work on, ranging from improved compatibility with Photoshop to making the transform tool the most awesome ever seen. Here’s the kickstarter campaign page: XXX Krita is a KDE project (http://www.kde.org). The Krita Project is supported by the Krita Foundation (http://www.krita.org) and KO GmbH (http://www.kritastudio.com). Press information about Krita is available here: http://krita.org/press. Krita is free software and available for Windows and Linux.