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Re:Kickstart the GNUstep Project by visualR on Monday August 12, 2013 @11:23PM (#6203830)
Thats a pretty lame criticism considering the campaign was started by 1 guy who is an engineer, not into marketing.
Re:Kickstart the GNUstep Project by bdonlan on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @12:33AM (#6204004)
Just because someone's an engineer doesn't magically make people throw money at their project. It's _understandable_, perhaps, that an engineer might overlook the need for good marketing, or not know how to go about marketing something well - after all, for probably the vast majority of software engineers (or other types of engineers!), marketing is just not something they do often. But that doesn't make it 'lame criticism' to point out why such a campaign may do poorly; hopefully the author of the campaign uses this criticism to improve on the campaign so that it might succeed.
Re:Kickstart the GNUstep Project by visualR on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @12:48AM (#6204038)
>> Just because someone's an engineer doesn't magically make people throw money at their project.

No one said that. It is a lame criticism - focus on whether there is a need for the project, is it possible in the time frame, etc. Substance over style, please.

Re:Kickstart the GNUstep Project by Semaphor on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @03:31AM (#6204449)
For Kickstarter style has been shown, over and over again, to be very important. He isn't talking about the product or an article.
Re:Kickstart the GNUstep Project by gcasa on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @12:46AM (#6204037)
I'll add a video tomorrow with me talking about the project. I'm learning a lot doing this kickstarter.