We're crowdfunding! What do you want?

Pillowslips with 'no more thinking, time to sleep' on them!

AdBusters would probably provide some copies to give away.

Actually an international pack of Art stickers would be way better. Something that expresses the 13+ languages

I am keen on reallay growing the sense of contribution to community initiatives, Loomio in schools for example, enabling people in developing countries to use Loomio. My ideas about gifts/rewards are along the lines of

1. memory stick with Loomio code
2. participate in deciding where a percentage of the money is spent
3. a visioning the future art work by 'daily secretions'

3-6 Premier Crowdfunder badges on Loomio home page, which includes business name of Funder.

@ricardoaraujo given the nature of the site and community I personally would strongly recommend against putting caps on group sizes unless given payment for two reasons. It could quite easily turn Loomio into a 'product', I know people need to get paid to get things done but if you essentially have to buy an account to make it properly manageable it may alter the entire gist of the idea. Going on from that, Loomio is still quite small relative to facebook and the like and thus could benefit from more members. Group caps could potentially stagnate growth. Not saying you are wrong just putting in my 2 cents.

Moving on, I think part of the crowd funding might also help if we (the Loomio community) found some other organisations that could aline with or benefit from Loomio. For example I'm having a chat with the director for online engagement at Oaktree and hopefully doing some volunteer work with them. I'll most definitely to the loomio site and suggest it as a tool for self-coordinating volunteer work, which should compliment the 'community leader' campaign that they are currently running.

Word of mouth is a powerful thing. If everyone here knows someone or better yet an existing group or organisation that could get involved and they personally endorse the site we could probably have quite an impact.

What are the reasons why you (the Loomio team) are starting a crowdfunding campaign? What will be the money used for? Is it for structural functionning (daily work) and so consolidate your earnings to be sure not to have any financial problem during the year, or is this money intended for some specific use? For example developing a whole set of features which would add up to the ones which are already planned for sure. For this reason, you should look at what Piwik did: http://crowdfunding.piwik.org

They proposed several features and people and companies could sponsor these by crowdfunding (so that then their name would appear in the credits of the given modules). I would advise you to propose a big amount of features, this way people could pick the features they are the most interested into and so participate in the decision of what could be developed :). A different way to do it: make a unique crowdfunding campaign, and once the big goal is reached, let the funders decide democratically (or with a weight of their financial participation amount) the priorities of features development, by voting quite often during the year (for example the vote would be to order the features ideas/tickets by preference).

There are also several crowdfunding websites where people can create a crowdfunding campaign for a given feature, and they implement it it the goal is reached. You (the Loomio team) could use these :)

Example of crowdfunding websites for open source features: https://www.bountysource.com/ and https://www.catincan.com/

Imagine the crowdfunding rewards functioning like a vote in a way - we list out lots of features and see which ones people give the most to, then build those first. Great ideas @quentingrimaud