Hello Chris, First, I don't know why I feel like nobody remembers what we talked about in the meeting and what everyone agreed on as a very good idea. Now you are saying you should find a noble cause as if you never heard of what we are going to do.
Second, I agree with you about all the things you said about the companies. we should target some companies based on their interest and involvement with FOSS. I guess we need a meeting to discuss this further and see what we can do about it. It seems it is more work than I thought and I am not sure we are ready for this as a team. Thanks, Hussein On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Christopher J. Volny <[email protected]>wrote: > Step 1 is to find a noble cause for the funding to go towards. Put > yourself in Company X's shoes: why should they give RocketsOSI $500 towards > their project (which is?) instead of to Engineers Without Borders trying to > purify water in the developing world? If we want to purchase 100 usb drives > to give free software to school kids so they can do their homework, that's > a good project start. > > Step 2: identify organizations that are aligned with the goals of the > project. If we're fundraising to bring a speaker on Open Internet > Technology to talk, then we can talk to someone like Hanson Inc. Promoting > LibreOffice to freshmen? Maybe ask a company that contributes that project > or to similar projects. > > Step 3: Do what you said you were going to do. Student orgs have received > hundreds from large companies in the past and failed to deliver on their > promises. Those companies will no longer donate to that group (and are less > likely to donate to others from UT) for at least as long as that corporate > rep is still employed there (5+ years). Photos, articles, etc are good > documentation to share with your corp donors. Recognizing their donation in > an event program or webpage is the least you can do; inviting them to > participate or advertise jobs/software/services is a good idea too. > > > *Christopher J. Volny * > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > 419-667-6752 (mobile) > [email protected] > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:24 AM, Hussein Al-Olimat <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> @Chris: when do you think we should start looking for funding for the >> ideas we talked about? >> >> I guess we will be done building the distro faster than we thought. Do >> you think it is a good idea to ask for the funding now or wait until April >> since our main work will start after the release of The LTS Ubuntu 14.04 >> in April 17... I guess? >> >> @Ali: do you have any idea if we can get funding from the communities? >> any kind of funding/donations anything can encourage students? >> >> @Ahmad: we will talk to the departments as you said when we make sure >> when to actually start asking for funding and maybe after designing a >> procure >> describing the events in details. >> >> @Hisham: you should engage with the guys here to see make things work >> please. we need to get funding to really show our contribution. >> >> Thanks all in advance. >> >> Hussein >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~rocketsosi >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~rocketsosi >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >
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