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

Facts are great, yes.  Never too much information! :)

Working on getting a survey put together to distribute so that we can learn
more about our users, since our use cases are generally going to be a bit
broader than those of Krita.

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:47 AM, Boudewijn Rempt <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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