Hi Zenwalker,
We distributed tshirts to some volunteers and speakers :) to thank them
for their supports to the event. We distributed 80 tshirts in total.
While we got 20 participants donated 800 rs, and we gave away 20 tshirts
in total as gifts :-) A big thank you to those who donated (including you)!
Regarding GNOME merchandises for India, there is actually a GNOME store
for Chinese market, that store is managed by the the GNOME User Group in
Beijing,, they are all volunteers. (They signed an agreement with the
GNOME Foundation to get the permission to distribute merchandises of
GNOME - http://foundation.gnome.org/licensing/usergroup/)
The GNOME.Asia committee has been looking for company that is similar to
http://www.zazzle.com/gnome that can offer people with GNOME
merchandises to the Indian market. Since there will be a few GNOME User
Groups establishing in India, we will definitely need more local
volunteers to help to start the GNOME Store in India. In this case, the
local volunteers can propose any amount to cope with the local market.
if you have any recommendation, please do propose to us!
Thanks again for your support and feedbacks!
Pockey
On 04/05/2011 11:52 PM, Zenwalker wrote:
Dear Fred,
I have completely scanned the Friends of Gnome page before even
raising this request. 500USD was just an example i opted to refer as
what i am talking about. But as you can see, those who would be
interested in a t-shirt and a membership stuffs and more goodies as a
sign of show off to others for their contributions, other stuffs wont
work out for them or they may not be interested. I am sure you did
attend the Gnome.Asia summit and u must have seen how many
non-volunteers have bought the tshirt and wore it to show off their
support.
So what ever is the type of contribution, it would be great if the
rates are brought down to the country level standards. That way gnome
or any Free Software project can attract more contributors. I do hope
you understand my concern here. Conversion rates from USD - INR is
pretty costly. That itself puts more people off from contributing.
Thanks :)
P.S: Its not just my issues. Its every ones and i am just requesting
on behalf of the concerned group of people as well as a well wisher of
FS/Gnome to grow.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Frederic Muller <fr...@gnome.org
<mailto:fr...@gnome.org>> wrote:
Dear Shailesh,
GNOME accepts donations starting from as low as you can afford.
Please review http://www.gnome.org/friends/step2.php for one time
donation: you can see that the default amount is U$25 (and not
$500) and can be edited to a lower amount.
I hope that clarifies the issues for you.
Kind regards,
Fred
On 04/05/2011 11:12 AM, Zenwalker wrote:
Dear Board Members,
I here by wish to make an appeal for customizing the rates
(contribution
funds) to Gnome programs such as Gnome Store, Friends of Gnome,
Contribute to Gnome, etc. to be customized to the country
rates such a
way more people can affort to contribute.
The current problem is, most contributors willing to
contribute to the
Free software (Gnome, Linuxfoundation, FSF, etc.) are not able to
contribute in any way viz Buying goodies, fund transfers, etc.
coz the
conversion rates are too high.
For example, to become a friends of Gnome program and sponsor
500USD to
get a one time membership, etc. features, it will cost around
21,000 INR
(Indian Currency) for an individual.
This is leading to loosing alot of contributors in and around asia
specific. I can assure you this problem is faced by many in my
country
(india) when ever i interact with many people interested in
gnome and
wishes to contribute funds, upon seeing the conversion rates,
they back
off.
Hence i here by make a request to the board of members to take
further
decisions as requested above, so that every body can
contribute easily
and comfortably.
P.S: I had the same above discussion with Brian Cameron when
he visited
Gnome.Asia 2011 summit in bangalore recently. He directed me
to write a
mail to the Board Members.
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