Re: Q to all candidates: fundraising
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:09:37PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Question(s) to all candidates: > What is your perception of fundraising in and around Debian? Short of DebConf (and more recently Outreachy), we don't do anything of significance. > If anything, what changes would you like to help implement? I don't think that Debian has ever really needed to raise funds in a significant way, for ongoing costs at least. Also see Gergely's answer for general ideas around fundraising, he's picked up on some of the main ideas I would look for in dedicated fundraising (matching, stretch goals etc all work well). Again though, if there's something that someone wants to do to improve what we do, then let's do that. Neil -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Q to all candidates: fundraising
also sprach Gergely Nagy [2015-03-16 12:28 +0100]: > I think fundraisers can be great, for specific non-recurring > tasks, or as an additional source of funding for significantly > larger ones, which would be very hard to fund otherwise. Ftr, I was talking about regular fundraising, not individual fundraisers. I just didn't want to call it marketing & sales. ;) But judging from: > In my opinion, if a recurring project is successful, and we keep > doing it year after year, then we should try our best to minimise > the amount of fundraising required. I think you picked up on this. > I have not followed Debian and Debian-related fundraising efforts > recently, but if we have not tried alternative ways of running > one, perhaps we should. See -project right now, partners programme for the latest incarnation. It's not the first time. This has been tried for decades. -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems sed -e '/^[when][coders]/!d' \ -e '/^...[discover].$/d' \ -e '/^..[real].[code]$/!d' \ /usr/share/dict/words digital_signature_gpg.asc Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/sig-policy/999bbcc4/current)
Re: Q to all candidates: fundraising
> "martin" == martin f krafft writes: martin> What is your perception of fundraising in and around Debian? I think fundraisers can be great, for specific non-recurring tasks, or as an additional source of funding for significantly larger ones, which would be very hard to fund otherwise. In my opinion, if a recurring project is successful, and we keep doing it year after year, then we should try our best to minimise the amount of fundraising required. martin> If anything, what changes would you like to help implement? I'd like to find stable funding for recurring tasks, whenever possible, be that through sponsors, or from general Debian money. Furthermore, my experience with fundraisers is that hard to obtain goals are rarely reached. On the other hand, running additional fundraisers for the stretch goals can yield a lot more support, than running one larger thing. I have not followed Debian and Debian-related fundraising efforts recently, but if we have not tried alternative ways of running one, perhaps we should. Sponsors doing matching donations is also something that sends a signal of importance and stability, which encourages people - at least some people - to take part in the effort. Therefore, finding more such sponsors would be a useful effort. -- |8] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Q to all candidates: fundraising
Question(s) to all candidates: What is your perception of fundraising in and around Debian? If anything, what changes would you like to help implement? Thanks, -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems russian roulette on the shell: ((RANDOM % 6)) || rm -rf ~ digital_signature_gpg.asc Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/sig-policy/999bbcc4/current)
