>> Could you elaborate on what sort of things would convince you?
What the money would actually be used for, which you just shed some more light on. It was really vague exactly which aspect(s) of the development the funds would be focused on, aside from "bringing the project to release", and you didn't really clarify how that's qualified. It's a highly technical project, I'd expect a little bit more meat.
Overall, I felt like there was some detail lacking with regard to the "how" of you getting to the goal. In theory, every funded development plan has some form of timeline(schedule/plan) and milestones, hopefully with some really vague dates or estimates. I just wasn't persuaded you had planned that far ahead yet. The project, based purely on the Indiegogo page, seemed to still be a hobby project that you enjoyed playing with. I simply can't justify adding to a $20,000 development fund based on the concept that you'll continue to flesh things out as you go along.
I haven't seen a serious track record of highly adopted open source projects from you(if I was looking in the wrong places or mistaken about the popularity of some of your projects, please correct me) and that doesn't persuade me to take you at your word. I'd need some meat in terms of what I'm actually funding and not what you hope to build. I can't in good conscience fund a project based on the end result or deliverable, I have to fund your process, planning ability, architectural consideration and senior experience; I could really only trust the last point, and not as much as I would have liked to.
I still appreciate what you're aiming to do, and that you've put so much energy into the concept already, but I don't appreciate it enough to contribute dollars. If you were looking for donations to continue to evolve the project after release and there was a community behind it saying good things, I'd be inclined to take the "end goal" as enough explanation and review the history of how things have evolved to see if I think you're reliable enough to fund. In this case, you want money to deliver an initial release, and I'm going to need to know how you want to get there.
What the money would actually be used for, which you just shed some more light on. It was really vague exactly which aspect(s) of the development the funds would be focused on, aside from "bringing the project to release", and you didn't really clarify how that's qualified. It's a highly technical project, I'd expect a little bit more meat.
Overall, I felt like there was some detail lacking with regard to the "how" of you getting to the goal. In theory, every funded development plan has some form of timeline(schedule/plan) and milestones, hopefully with some really vague dates or estimates. I just wasn't persuaded you had planned that far ahead yet. The project, based purely on the Indiegogo page, seemed to still be a hobby project that you enjoyed playing with. I simply can't justify adding to a $20,000 development fund based on the concept that you'll continue to flesh things out as you go along.
I haven't seen a serious track record of highly adopted open source projects from you(if I was looking in the wrong places or mistaken about the popularity of some of your projects, please correct me) and that doesn't persuade me to take you at your word. I'd need some meat in terms of what I'm actually funding and not what you hope to build. I can't in good conscience fund a project based on the end result or deliverable, I have to fund your process, planning ability, architectural consideration and senior experience; I could really only trust the last point, and not as much as I would have liked to.
I still appreciate what you're aiming to do, and that you've put so much energy into the concept already, but I don't appreciate it enough to contribute dollars. If you were looking for donations to continue to evolve the project after release and there was a community behind it saying good things, I'd be inclined to take the "end goal" as enough explanation and review the history of how things have evolved to see if I think you're reliable enough to fund. In this case, you want money to deliver an initial release, and I'm going to need to know how you want to get there.