Re: What can we learn from Krita's Kickstarter?

On Tue, 5 May 2015, Harold Schreckengost wrote:

> First, I want to apologize if I came across as trying to attack the Krita fundraiser in any way.  You guys are doing an amazing job with it, seriously.  I just wanted everyone to take a look at it with a
> critical eye so that we can learn from it.

I never read it that way, don't worry :-)

> Before we even define what we bring to our audience, we want to understand our audience.  Who are they?  What are they looking for in a desktop environment?  Do they even know what a DE is?  How long have
> they been using Linux?  Why are they using it?

For KDE, I'm not sure. For Krita, we went through great lengths and lots 
of discussion so we could arrive at a point where we could say, "sorry, 
you'd better use digikam or gimp or inkscape for that!" :-)

> On a side, free software suffers from one of the worst environments for creating "free rider" problems.  No matter how much people use the software, a number of them will always feel as though they have no
> vested interest and no responsibility for improving it.  I would be interested in seeing the overlap of donors between last time and this time for Krita; I would reckon it's a significant portion of repeat
> donors.  I would be curious what impact we could have by working on getting first-time donors for free software, now and going forward.

Hard to say right now. We're at nearly 300 backers, half of what we ended 
up with last time. I recognize some familiar names, but most seem new to 
me. I'll share stats and things when we're done, just like last year. I 
like facts :-)

Boudewijn


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