5. The current situation:
•A lot of KDE hackers are students
•The situation becomes difficult when you start to
work full time
•Even more if you have children
•
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6. The current situation:
•Some developers are sponsored by companies
•But not many
•Becomes even more difficult with the current
economic situation
•Tiny amount of full time developers compared to
closed source software.
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7. Wouldn´t it be good to work full time at
your KDE application?
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8. We need a way for KDE hackers to pay
the rent by writing free software
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9. A Business Model for free
software hackers
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19. Example:
•digikam
•$5 a month
•Hotline Number directly to the developer
•Dedicated Email Address
•Remote Desktop support
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21. Example:
•$5 a month
•listed as a "supporter" on the webpage
•invited to a party together with the developers
once a year
•support calls
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25. •It is possible to sell binaries!
•Companies like Redhat or Novell sell our
software already
•But the developers doesn´t benefit from it directly.
•Let´s enable the developers to sell Mac,
Windows, Linux binaries
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26. Targetgroup:
Endusers !
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27. Example:
•$3 for an Amarok Windows Binary
•incuding one support call
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30. •Developers choose the price
•Payment via Paypal
•Web or Native Client
•Qt Application
•Mac / Windows / Linux
•Open API
•In KDE SVN next week
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