Bart Kelsey
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OpenGameArt.org is a site that helps programmers and artists collaborate to make video games, by providing a platform where artists can share and archive their art and programmers can reach them easily.
Funding OpenGameArt will allow me to devote time to addressing the backlog of bug reports and feature requests and help me keep the site running well for everyone. Once the outstanding issues are fixed, I'll be able to move on to working on better organization (including finer-grained art categories), and greater community participation (such as managing larger contests like another Liberated Pixel Cup or similar).
For those of you who are interested in the numbers: this fund drive isn't set up in such a way that it'll make me any more money than I'm already making right now. Instead, what it will allow me to do is spend hours working on OGA that I would otherwise have spent on my regular contract work. Each $100 pledged works out to roughly an hour of work per week (or 4.5 hours per month), so if we reach the $2000 goal, I'll be able to split my time 50/50 between OGA and my contract work and make about the same amount of money that I do right now.
Thank you for your consideration and support!
Funding OpenGameArt will allow me to devote time to addressing the backlog of bug reports and feature requests and help me keep the site running well for everyone. Once the outstanding issues are fixed, I'll be able to move on to working on better organization (including finer-grained art categories), and greater community participation (such as managing larger contests like another Liberated Pixel Cup or similar).
For those of you who are interested in the numbers: this fund drive isn't set up in such a way that it'll make me any more money than I'm already making right now. Instead, what it will allow me to do is spend hours working on OGA that I would otherwise have spent on my regular contract work. Each $100 pledged works out to roughly an hour of work per week (or 4.5 hours per month), so if we reach the $2000 goal, I'll be able to split my time 50/50 between OGA and my contract work and make about the same amount of money that I do right now.
Thank you for your consideration and support!
Goals
$194.90 of $200 per month
Dull as it sounds, the first thing I need to address is basic ongoing maintenance of the site to ensure that performance is up to par. My inability to keep up with this is actually what spurred me to create this campaign; OGA is now large enough that I can no longer keep the site running as it is in my free time (to the point that a recent performance crisis forced me to take two days off of work to get things back in working order again).
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