On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Shane Curcuru <[email protected]> wrote:
> Note that the issue of monetary contributions and/or donations is a major > one, especially since there are real policy differences between how > OpenOffice.org used to work under Sun/Oracle and how the ASF does it's > fundraising. In particular, the ASF has a [email protected] team and > VP who work on fundraising for all projects; individual projects do not > specifically solicit for funds (other than to link to the ASF Sponsorship > page, etc.). > thanks for this information, i still have to learn a lot about the ASF. The point is that the amount of donated money is not to disregarded and it have allowed us to sponsor projects like the OpenOffice.org internship (~27000 Euro) etc. > > I would urge the PPMC to start a separate thread dealing with the > contributing.oo.o page, the relationship with SPI, and any other fundraising > matters. > good point > > Get a description of any pre-existing ways that funds might have come into > the project in the recent past, figure out a proposed plan for what the PPMC > would like to do in the future, and then work with fundraising@ (a > privately archived list) to move forward. > i will try to figure that out and it will come back with related information... Juergen > > - Shane > > > On 8/12/2011 8:40 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:05 AM, drew<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 22:41 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>> <snip> >>> >>> >>> http://contributing.**openoffice.org/donate.html<http://contributing.openoffice.org/donate.html> >>>> >>>> >>> Ah right - so we should contact SPI and ask for them to stop taking >>> donations for OpenOffice.org, yes? >>> >>> >> mmh, i am not sure. Team OpenOffice.org still exists and is as far as i >> know >> still committed to support OpenOffice. We have to check how this can be >> aligned with Apache because we probably don't want to loose this >> opportunity >> to get some money for the project. For example for conferences, marketing >> etc. >> >> Juergen >> >> >> >> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Drew >>> >>> >>> >>
