Hi all. I was just talking to my boss about his football boosters' fundraising auction and that caused a few ideas in my head that I'd like for the record:
- The way the boosters' auction works is they sell tickets ($12) and then once at the event, items are auctioned off that are donated from businesses in the area. For example, Mid's donated a case of spaghetti sauce. An analogous situation would be if Goodyear donated a set of four tires, Chipotle donated gift certificates, etc. In exchange, they get event sponsorship and their name on a banner. On top of that, we could make use of things we already have laying around - for example, donated computers could be restored to working condition and given a fresh copy of Fedora, then auctioned with a monitor, keyboard and mouse. - A tangential idea would be starting a company eBay store. We had talked some months back about having a storefront per se but that would be impractical at this time for space reasons. We could take those aforementioned old computers and other spare assets and auction them off for cash. The live auction could be part of an event (the site cleanup, or the open house for example) or it could be its own thing. I just wanted to get a conversation going about it. Trever also mentioned we do need to start having more active projects we could highlight. If we do a project that we could make through an easily repeatable process, those items could perhaps be sold for some cash as well. Dan -- Dan Swick [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
