Thank you all so much for your support! Purism only exists thanks to great supporters like you guys. But you know Purism so you already knows that.
We have some experience in crowd-funding. It is the 4th one we do (the 3rd one for me as part of Purism). We have also been talking with the people at CrowdSupply, where we had our previous campaigns and we know that a crowd-funding campaign is not linear. It is very psychological and it goes through several phases. The current evolution of our campaign makes us believe that we are already in good position, ahead of the expected trend line to succeed.
Of course, it will be stressful until we pass that finish line. So going back to the first question : How to help?
The best way to help make sure we make it is to spread the word as much as you can.
- If you have blogs, keep posting about the evolution of the campaign like you are commenting a live race (which it is).
- Don’t hesitate to contact press around you, pointing them back to us. Don’t limit yourself to the world of technologies. For example, we can also find a great crowd of supporters in the world of sustainable development as we are privileging ethics and democracy to capitalism and private interest in our business model.
- If you are fluent in a non English language, keep talking about us in this language and explain who we are to people, bloggers, journalists who speak this language. It is a worldwide campaign.
- This is the world of freedom and the previous points are just ideas that I have on my mind, so be free to do whatever you want to help us. Make concept art, software design, UI mockups, drawings, songs, poems… Ask us for material if you need some.
This is a global effort and we will make it!