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UPDATE: We have launched a new fundraising campaign to fund Synfig development for next month. Please check it out here.
Short Summary
Hello, my name is Konstantin Dmitriev. I am running this campaign to fund the development of Synfig - the free and opensource animation software.
I am mentoring a full-time developer Ivan Mahonin, who is working on Synfig code. We have funded his work in previous months by running similar fundraising campaigns for October, November, December and January.
Thanks to success of those campaigns, Ivan have implemented following features for Synfig:
The success of this campaign will allow Ivan to work full-time for a whole month in February 2014.
Also, this campaign allows our users to directly influence the Synfig development by choosing development priorities.
How?
Please read below.
"Choose Priority" perk
For
a donation of fixed amount (see the perks on the right) we offer to the donor an exceptional privilege to
choose a priority of development. So, we will spend next month working on the priority you defined. Of course, we can't promise any thing, so please select from the list below:
Frame-by-frame bitmap animation support (continued, see current status)
Rendering speed optimization
Sound support
NOTE: We don't guarantee the feature from a selected priority to be completelyfinished
within a month. Such promises are not compatible with development
realities. What we promise is to dedicate no less than 85% of our
working time to developing this priority for a full month. Though, one
month is a significant period and such dedication would lead to
significant changes in selected direction. Many our users are aware that
we used to publish development snapshots regularly, so you will be able to benefit from development results as soon as possible.
EXAMPLE: As result of our earlier fundraising campaign, we got sold the "Choose priority" perk for October. The priority chosen by donor was "Single-window UI". You can see results in this video.
"Development OS" perk
By default we use Linux operation system (OS) for daily development (because we love Linux). As result, the Linux version of Synfig is the most polished, because it goes through daily proof.
But, for a fixed-amount donation (see the perks on the right) you can make us shift to other OS for next month. So, if we will use the OS of your choice in our daily development, then obviously the Synfig version will be especially polished to work on it: daily proof => more testing => less bugs => better stability.
No worries, this perk doesn't mean we drop support for other operation systems. It's just a question of choosing the OS for daily development.
At the moment the only OS available for choice is Windows.
Other perks
We understand that there are people who would like to support our efforts by other means.
Specially for them we prepared other perks to express our gratitude:
Synfig Training Package. You can get our Synfig training course at exclusively low price. Comparing to regular "pay-what-you-want" download, you get a direct assistance from the course instructors and all future
updates are also included. We will ship a coupon code for you which you can use to access the training by yourself or present as a gift to someone. The package is available in English and Russian.
Tutorial video. A tutorial video about Synfig for ANY given
theme. Length is limited to 5 minutes. Languages can be English or
Russian. Video will be publicly available for everyone. The tutorial
video will be produced by Nikolai Mamashev, who was in charge for producing Synfig Training Package.
Report sponsor. You can track the progress of the development by reading my weekly reports. If you claim this perk, then one of my weekly reports will be indicated as
sponsored by you with an (optional) link to your website. The mention
will look as "This report is sponsored by: ..." text at the top of the
report text.
Sponsor logo. Your logo displayed for one month at the front page of Synfig website.
Who is behind this campaign
Konstantin Dmitriev. This is me. I am the person who is
responsible for distributing collected funds and mentoring the
development process. I am an open-source activist with a special profile
for animation. The range of my activities include expertize,
development and popularization of free software animation solutions.
You can see following my works made as animator purely with free software:
The sources
for many of the works above are freely available under the Creative Commons license.
Ivan Mahonin. He is a professional C/C++ developer, hired to work on Synfig code. You can track current Ivan's contributions to Synfig on this page.
Nikolai Mamashev. He is a "wizard of Synfig", awesome artist
who use free software only. If you are user Synfig, then you know at
least one his work - the current splash screen is created by him. He is known as lead artist in Morevna Project: Demo, also it worths to look at his portfolio. Nikolai is in charge for providing artistic support for us, proof testing and tutorials production.
The Impact
With this campaign we would like to provide a way to control the direction of development and support vitality of Synfig development at the same time. Users can choose the priorities and all collected funds will go to support further sustainable development of Synfig. It's fair and benefit is for everyone - we all get better free animation software.
Also, we are open to consider other models of funding for Synfig. If you are would like to sponsor the implementation of particular feature - please contact us (see the comments tab at the top).
You get access to the English version of Synfig Training course at Udemy.com.
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February 2014
16 claimed
Training Package (Russian)
$12 USD
You get access to the Russian version of Synfig Training course at Udemy.com.
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February 2014
7 claimed
Report Sponsor
$100 USD
Your name displayed as a sponsor in one of my weekly reports with an (optional) link to your website.
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February 2014
1 out of 4 of claimed
Development OS
$250 USD
You will define which OS we will use for development during the next month. Please make sure to read campaign text for details.
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February 2014
0 out of 1 of claimed
Tutorial Video
$270 USD
We will produce a tutorial video about Synfig for ANY given theme. Length is limited to 5 minutes. Languages: English or Russian. Video will be publicly available for everyone.
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0 out of 1 of claimed
Choose Priority
$300 USD
We will spend next month working on the priority you selected. Please consult the campaign text for the list of available priorities.
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0 out of 1 of claimed
Sponsor logo
$300 USD
Your logo displayed for one month at the front page of Synfig website.