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Walkthrough.it crowdfunding campaign launched!

CEO, Co-Founder
Feb 28, 2013
Drupal Walkthroughs

Today we launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign (kind of like Kickstarter) for our automated walkthrough project. The goal of the project is to enable the Drupal community to play, edit and comment on automated walkthroughs. We want to make an open source toolchain that helps you create walkthroughs that are more interactive than video. With the campaign we hope we'll be able to raise the funds to launch the tool for the Drupal community and to make an extensive set of step by step tutorials for a distribution our backers choose and to launch walkhub.net, GitHub for automated tutorials.

As part of the campaign we will do a popular vote for the Drupal distribution, product or site, that our backers want us to document. If there is a Drupal distribution (e.g. Open Atrium, Drupal8 core), product (e.g. Drupal Gardens, Buzzr) or website (e.g. your intranet) that you are passionate about, and that has a vibrant community, this is your chance to have us make awesome step by step tutorials for you. Mobilize your community to donate and vote and this prize could be yours. Every donor, who gives at least 1$, will get a vote. We've set the campaign up as a fixed funding campaign with a target of 5000$. That means that if you back us, you are not taking any risks: if we don't raise enough money, you won't be charged. We of course hope that we will raise much more than 5000$. With the money we plan to:

  • Create a first set of tutorials for a distribution of your choice (if we raise enough money we'll additional projects as stretch goals)
  • Launch walkhub.net: a place where you collaborate with your communities to build automated web walkthroughs
  • Build a Drupal module that will play walkthroughs on your site

I need your help. The main reason that we are doing the crowdfunding campaign is to get as much people interested in the project. Any contribution, no matter if it's a contribution of 1$ or if it's more is very important to make the campaign a success. So if you also want to fix documentation in Drupal and the wider open source world, reach out to your friends and colleagues and tell them how they can be part of Walkthrough.it! You can find the campaign at http://igg.me/at/Drupal PS: This weekend I will be demo-ing the tool at Drupalcamp London, I'll even have a session about the tool and the project. Curious about the tool and you will be attending Drupalcamp London? Make sure to come to see me.

Kristof Van Tomme is an open source strategist and architect. He is the CEO and co-founder of Pronovix. He’s got a degree in bioengineering and is a regular speaker at conferences in the API, developer relations, and technical writing communities. He is the host of the Developer Success & the Business of APIs and the API Resilience podcasts.

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