What next? (Rant warning) not really
Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 10:38AM
Thom

I’m going over the inventory of unreleased kits (there are always kits that don’t have a home) to see what I might post as the next free download.  There are a few possible contenders but nothing that gets me excited.  What I’d really like to do is put up a brand new kit that I think is great.  I get a warm fuzzy feeling when I put up a cool kit and give somthing  to the community.  The problem is I was hoping for a bit more support for our efforts.  The $1 donate button is not doin it.  ( I hope this doesen’t come off as too passive agressive)  Maybe it was a silly idea in the first place.  After all it’s not free if it’s a dollar.  The idea was, hay, folks are downloading thousands of kits each month, if we got 1% of those folks to push the button, we could do this full time and put up more and better models.  Seriously that was the idea.  Well, guess I need to rethink things.  (To the good folks who have shown support, some times multiple times. we appreciate it.)

As most folks know, our volume one disks are packed to the edges with cool stuff.  But some people don’t need or want all of that.  They just want a kit or two.  We are trying to figure out a way to meet that need.  The free or almost free down loads are a small step in that direction.  I’d like to make it so you can buy and download a kit instantly.  So far the software to do exactly that has eluded us but we are working on it.

In the mean time, I’m going to keep putting up kits for free download.  If the donations improve to say 1/2 of 1%, I’ll be able to justify putting up better kits.

OK, lets get possitive here.  What kind of kits would you like to see as a freebie?

Thom

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