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Update #21: What would we do with more money?

Posted on July 29, 2011

Thanks to all you 784 backers, we made our funding goal!  And we did it, as in all of us.  One of the cool things about Kickstarter is it's a collective struggle that gives those who were recently strangers a strangely close connection.  I love this Tweet from Nick Taylor:

Well... looks like @novacut are going to do it http://t.co/Iwp86Jz God damn this has been stressful... and it's not even my project.

Hopefully we didn't stress you out too much, Nick!  But at the same time, it's pretty darn touching Nick bothered to stress about it at all.

As long as we've reached our goal, might as well dream big... especially just in case any of the post houses Tara has been contacting happen to join the fun on the last day.  So what would we do with more money?  We'd contract with Collabora for some improvements in GStreamer, our multimedia backend.

Thanks to some Internet detective work by Akshat Jain, turns out porting Novacut to OSX and Windows will be easier than I thought.

I'd also like to thank Georgi Karavasilev for making this great Novacut wallpaper:

Please download the full resolution wallpaper here.


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      Paul d'Aoust on July 29, 2011

      Yeah, I was getting stressed out too! Glad to see that you're definitely in the safe zone now. It was a little hairy when someone changed their pledge and put the total a mere $3 short of your goal.

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      Yitzchak Schwarz on July 29, 2011

      Can we get the SVG for that wallpaper? I'd like to make some modifications.

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      Novacut Team on July 30, 2011

      The wallpaper was done in GIMP, so no SVG. But you can download the gimp source (XCF) here: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php...



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Jason DeRose
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Tara Oldfield
Artist Liaison, Community Manager, Photographer, & Filmmaker

Akshat Jain
Developer Outreach, Hyperactive Awesomeness

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