On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 18:25 -0700, Bruce Hohl wrote: > Idea #1 > Create a "Friends of OpenOffice" donations arrangement > whereby someone who donates say $25 or more is > recognized for a year with a thank you somewhere on > your site and gets the next year's worth of issues of > your monthly or bi-monthly newletter which includes > insight into the project activities and direction of > the software. >
This is certainly possible via Teamopenoffice and the marketing project. > Idea #2 > Use some of this money to actively get OpenOffice to > potential users by sending OpenOffice CDs and some > printed info to certain groups like teachers, > accountants, etc. I find it amazing how many people > know nothing about OpenOffice. Teachers et cetera can get the iso images from http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/iso_downoad.html for the cost of the download. > > Idea #3 > Get a charitable organization 501(C)3 so these > donations can be made on a tax deductible basis in the > U.S. Would you care to help set this up? In the meantime, you could use http://contributing.openoffice.org/donate.html and eat the tax deduction on your US$25 :-) -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/
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