[Bf-committers] Gooseberry campaign - last week

[Jacob Merrill]

Also what is the minimum donation? I am dirt poor but want to help.
On Apr 11, 2014 9:56 AM, blueprintrandom1 at gmail.com wrote:

> Perhaps a short prequel that is insanely cute? Appeal to parents, not just
> artists?
> On Apr 11, 2014 3:31 AM, "Jan Albartus" <albartus at home.nl> wrote:
>
>> Personally I found the funding time period set to short, especially with
>> the goal in mind.
>>
>> On 2014-04-11 12:02, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > The Gooseberry artists have a message :)
>> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cROMULAPLyg
>> >
>> > Current Grand Total for the funding is 550k USD. Getting so much money
>> is already amazing - a world record for animation crowdfunding - but it's
>> still quite far away from our real target. We really would need to add 3
>> times more subscribers to make this project feasible!
>> >
>> > We still have 8 days left though, and I'm full of energy to get the
>> press and attention from half the internet so everyone knows what we do!
>> >
>> > What you could help with is:
>> >
>> > - Keep tweeting, facebooking, liking, forumposting, and sharing the
>> project everywhere.
>> > - Check with companies or studios who might want to become Bronze or
>> Silver credit sponsor.
>> > - Tell everyone you can just leave a pledge (promise) now, no payment
>> is needed until we reach the goal.
>> > - Inspire some other people to join the Blender Cloud or to pledge :)
>> >
>> > Whatever happens though - I'd like to confirm that we're fully
>> committed to everyone who already supported us. We're not going to let you
>> down! The Blender Cloud is there to stay. The EU media subsidy (200k) for
>> an "open production environment" will be invested anyway. And even with
>> "only" 2150 subscribers, it is giving us sufficient revenues to do great
>> things already. I have a good "plan B" ready, but I hope you accept to only
>> discuss that with you when it's needed. Focus is on winning this!
>> >
>> > Thanks on behalf of the Gooseberry teams,
>> >
>> > -Ton-
>> >
>> > Join here:
>> > https://cloud.blender.org/gooseberry/
>> >
>> >
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